Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 42

E2 MTD-VALLEY SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 8. 2002 ALBANY (OR) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, CORVALLIS (OR) GAZETTE -TIMES an Ad Teens have more choices for back-to-school clothes 7 5 Vrv t' 1 7 t'" 'It's a bottom season as opposed to tops. Jewelry, boots and big handbags are popular hits. Marshall Cohen Dream comes true Continued from El in all subjects, her mother said. "Most of the kids we've met are very smart and focused on their school work.

They know that if they want to work, they have to get their school work done. On the set, they are very professional, Chase said. In person, Daveigh is cheerful, polite and very eager to please. She enjoys the perks that go along with her success such as her invitation to the Teen Choice awards but she knows that she hasn't done this by herself. "My mom and my grandma have helped me so much; I wouldn't be where I am today without them," she said.

Diana O'Bryan, Daveigh's second-grade teacher at Oak Elementary School, had a chance to visit with her former student this week. "She's a regular kid. She is now just what she was then, that's what I love about Daveigh," O'Bryan said. "She comes up to the house and plays with my kids. She's laid back and she's just a kid when she's around." Like many children, Daveigh has big dreams.

She hopes to win an "Annie" award for her work as Lilo and someday she would like to win a Grammy. Most of her success to date has been in acting, but she still enjoys singing and she is working with a professional producer writing songs, Chase said. The family is saving most of Daveigh's earnings, Chase said, and Daveigh will be able to go to the college of her choice. Right now, she wants to study robotic engineering at MIT. "I know she's dreaming big, but so far, she's doing everything she wants to do.

It's hard to believe," Chase said. The store also has shoes and cowboy boots. Prices, for jeans run $8 to $25. T-shirts are from $3 to $25. Bags go for up to $45.

People who bring clothes into the store can have 40 percent of the price in cash or 60 percent in trade. The garments must be in perfect condition, current and trendy. The styles first and then the labels are the criteria used in pricing them, Starr says. "We might take some '60s. The 70s are really popular.

And the '80s T-shirts are really, really popular." Tiffany Dukovich, who goes, to Winnetonka High school, says she used to shop on the Internet for plus sizes before she found Torrid, in Independence, where she now works and shops. The retail chain was launched a little more than a year ago by the California retailer Hot Topic, listed as one of Fortune magazine's fastest growing companies last fall. The size range is 16 to 24, and target age is 14 to 26. The store seems to track all the trends. One wall is taken with, denim jeans embellished with; light worn washes and detailing such as lace-up closings, fancy seams, gold threads and tapes- -try print trims.

The jeans are priced from $38 to $48. "Rockabilly" dresses with, tulle underskirts and club wear are popular "anything black) with metal," says manager, Braden Lowen. The store signature is novel-? ty T-shirts. The most distinctive are four girly-girl designs in four personalities. They cost $20.

Meanwhile at Sandra Hawkins, a Maplewoods Community College student, is; searching for browns. It's her; first trip here, she says, and she has an armload of items to take to the dressing room. It's a busy day. Christine Barbour has outfitted her 12-year-old son Cameron for school, she says, and found clothes for herself and her husband. Meier, the manager, says the store evaluates incoming mer--) chandise especially on strength of the label.

Old Navy is a iffy. Banana Republic, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren among the priority labels. BY JACKIE WHITE KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS KANSAS CITY, Mo. It is a hot late-July afternoon and Andrea Soldberry is on a quest. "Skirts, dresses and cute little tight tops," says the Shawnee Mission North student, clutching a red draped blouse and whipping through double rows of clothing racks.

"And I like reds, burgundy." As she shops, a store employee carefully sorts through clothes "two bags of Abercrombie," she says that she has brought to the store. Soon she will find out what the store decides her offering is worth and that may go as a credit toward her new purchases. The scene is Plato's Closet in the Kansas City suburb of Shawnee, a new outpost for an expanding chain of resale stores catering to teens. The store buys and sells previously owned clothes. It puts a premium on popular brands.

Separate racks are labeled Abercrombie Fitch, American Eagle and Hollister. "I've seen people come in and buy an entire rack of Abercrombie," says manager Mike Meier. The store has an endless supply of denim jeans, mostly in name brands, at prices from $15 to $25. A long rack holds dozens of black pants. The average price of a garment in the store is $9.

This shop is one of several alternative sources for teens. Some people are drawn to the opportunity to assemble their own individual look and set themselves apart. Some have difficulty shopping at conventional department stores. Some find the appeal in saving money. It's back-to-school time, so it seems fitting to look at some shopping options as well as the styles on many wish lists, no matter where the teens shop.

Besides Plato's Closet, Torrid is a new chain of trendy plus-sized stores targeted to the young, and Arizona Trading Co. is an urban resale retailer started in Lawrence, a decade ago. On the hit list for back to Courtesy Photo Daveigh Chase, right, attends the Hollywood premiere of "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" with stars Alexa Vega, center. Matt O'Leary and MacKenzie Vega, front. school: Denim skirts, jeans with added details such as lace-up fly fronts, fringed belts, peasant blouses now in new colors and wide-legged men's cuffed trousers in strong plaid colors are priorities, says Tina Hodak, fashion director of the Jones Store parent company.

Active wear such as sweat tops with hoods has moved into the fashion sphere. "It's all in the details. Something has got to be going on," Hodak says. Marshall Cohen, executive of NPD, a sales-tracking company in Port Washington, N.Y., says the teen back-to-school business is good up 7 percent over last year in a slow apparel market. Denim is driving the market followed by casual pants.

"It's a bottom season as opposed to tops," he says. "Jewelry, boots and big handbags are popular hits." Shift the scene to Arizona Trading tucked quietly into a shady block in Kansas City, Mo. Customers here may be teens looking for school clothes, hip rock fans with a tattoo or two or young working women who want to stand out in a crowd on a budget. Back-to-school business is starting to gear up, says manager Venus Starr, who prefers not to use her last name. Young women are looking for items such as boot-cut low-rise jeans, the trendy peasant blouses, denim skirts, big belts, big bags, turquoise jewelry and novelty personalized T-shirts.

The store has brands such as the celebrity-favorite Seven jeans and occasionally Louis Vuitton and Coach bags and sunglasses. U.i.ii...m i. ui ii i.i i.i ui. ii i. mi iui ijii.i.ii.

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But she is drawn to Luther Fox, a musician who has turned his back on music for the painful memories it evokes. Between the two men is a legacy of distrust and antipathy, which Georgie's conflicted loyalties cause to flare dangerously. Is it possible to make amends for- the past? Can people change their essential nature through force of will? Can music be silenced, feelings be sti 'Dirt by Tim Winton; Scribner (407 pages, $26) novel as rich, deep and delicious as a Godiva truffle, and every bit as irresistible. You're tempted to linger over the language, relishing each sparkling sentence. But the characters are too compelling, the plot too intriguing.

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