BEST & WORST DRESSED '95
I have subscribed to PEOPLE for many years, but your cover for Best & Worst Dressed drove me over the edge. I'm no prude, but surely you don't think I would display that issue on my coffee table. You should be ashamed. If I want nudity, per Pamela Lee, I will subscribe to Playboy.
ALICE CASEY, Elm Grove, Wis.
I think it's time that someone teaches Pamela Lee the difference between looking sexy and dressing like a $20 hooker.
JOAN COBB, New York City
The photo of Pamela Lee on your cover and the two pages of her inside give new meaning to the words Special Double Issue. Wow!
R.L. GOEMAN, Madison, S.D.
Just because Melissa Etheridge isn't wearing Armani doesn't mean she deserves a spot on the Worst Dressed list. She is an artist, not a supermodel. She has her own creative style, and she doesn't care what anyone thinks.
JOANNE NOEL, Goose Creek, S.C.
Melissa Etheridge dresses just fine and wears leather better than most. Dressing down is in right now, and it's kinda cool in my book.
TERRI KLAYSMAT, St. Paul, Minn.
This will inform you and your judges that "Brat Pack chic," the "dirty underwear" and "slob" look are in. Drew Barrymore is one of the most stylish young persons in today's society. She dresses the way any 20-year-old would dress. Perhaps your judges should get out of Hollywood and look at the rest of us who cannot afford Armani, Valentino and Hervé Leger.
SARAH BARNEY, Marstons Mills, Mass.
Give Fran Drescher a break! In this beige and boring conformist world, she's a breath of fresh air. In all honesty, if I had her body I'd probably wear the same things. It's called enjoying yourself. Give it a try—you might like it.
LOUISE BEAUMONT, BRISTOL, CONN.
Help! Your panel of judges needs a sidebar with the court reporter present. Give me a comfort break. Marcia Clark in the Top 10 of Best Dressed? Justice must be blind!
JAIME LOYD, Oklahoma City
RuPaul as a fashion critic? When a guy who looks like Charles Barkley in a dress, blond wig and a lot of bad makeup becomes an authority on what looks good on you, it is definitely time to worry.
DENISE WAITE, Salt Lake City
CAL RIPKEN
Coming from a big baseball family, I may be prejudiced. If you decided, though, that featuring an honest, wholesome, family-oriented role model on your cover wouldn't sell as many-magazines as the good, bad and scantily clad, you struck out. Let me assure you, picture Cal and they will come.
KIM RUPPERT, Cumberland, Md.
JENIFER POWELL AND ANNETTE SANDER
As a parent of a Victor Valley High student, I am truly distressed not only by the locally publicized suicides but by the fact that the high school has failed to inform parents of the other 16 suicide attempts mentioned in your story. Concerned parents need this information brought into the open.
LINDA PALLARES, Victorville, Calif.
It is scary to realize that people still believe music and religion are causes of suicide. Your article reaffirmed this by referring to grunge fashion and witchcraft as "prophetic notes." I listen to grunge rock because that is my preference. I have studied witchcraft because I am interested in religion. Does this make me suicidal? Wake up, parents! You are responsible for your kids' well-being, not Pearl Jam.
JENNIFER LYN HERLONG
Uncasville, Conn.
PASSAGES
The caption on the picture of Helen Slater states that she is with her husband, Rob Watzke. Check again. That is Helen with her brother David Slater, an attorney in Manhattan. I do know, 'cause they're my cousins.
JEFFREY H. CITRIN, St. Louis
We regret the error.—ED.
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