Conference hydra::dejavu

998.0. "Crystal-Powered pants for the "New Age" (news item)" by LESCOM::KALLIS (Anger's no replacement for reason.) Fri Mar 03 1989 13:53

                      -<From the wire services...>-
    
                          CRYSTAL-POWERED PANTS
                          A NEW AGE FASHION FIT
                          
    By Bob Batz Jr.
    Scripps Howard
    
      Laurence Ostrow bills his "ChiPants" as "probably the most
    comfortable pants in the States."
      And yet, thousands of customers have paid $5 extra to have a
    rock sewn into the seam in the back.
      The rock is a tiny crystal of clear quartz, the cornerstone of
    the New Age movement and just the thing -- if you believe in quartz's
    supposed metaphysical powers -- to help when you're caught between
    a rock and a hard place.
      Just pull yourself up by the seat of your "Crystal-Powered Pants."
      "You won't feel the crystal; you'll just feel the energy," says the
    catalog for Chi (pronounced CHEE) Concepts of Santa Cruz, Calif.
      Chi, the catalog points out, is "the Chinese concept of the
    life-animating energies of our bodies."
      As you might expect, the 100 percent cotton ChiPants are not normal
    duds.  They are made not with the usual cross-seam in the crotch,
    but with a gusset -- a diamond-shaped piece of fabric that Ostrow
    says allows  greater freedom of movement and comfort.
      Powering them with crystals "was a way of having fun with something.
     I thought, `Everybody wears crystals around their necks -- why
    not put one in pants?'" says Ostrow, the rather esoteric founder
    and president of this rather esoteric company.
      The tiny slivers of Arkansas quartz -- about 3/8-inch long --
    can be sewn into any style of ChiPants, which sell for $35 to $45.
      The $5 service includes a four-page brochure about crystals.
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RE: .0

       >  -< Crystal-Powered pants for the "New Age" (news item) >-

       Undoubtedly from dirt powered brains!!!  Does everything have
       to become commercial?  Before you know it someone will be
       strip mining for crystals.

       Terry

    RE: .0
    
          I have a pair of CHI pants.  I like to use them for massage
    as they are comfortable and soft to touch.  Mine don't come with
    a crystal.  I'd rather put my own hard rocks into my pants, thanks.
    
    (There is also a store in Cupertino on Stevens Creek across from
    De Anza College which sells them locally, besides the store in
    Santa Cruz {on the mall} for any locals who may be interested.)
    
    Frederick
    

>    I'd rather put my own hard rocks into my pants, thanks.
    
You mean instead of someone else's? ;-)

John D.

    Are you a reincarnation of John Mitchell?  Perhaps you were the
    almightly anchovie in another life?
    
    Mary

Well, now you come to mention it, I *have* been
waking up with traces of a strange fishy smell in
my nostrils...

John D.

(Not John d'Anchovy as far as I know. :-))

re: .5 (John)

>Well, now you come to mention it, I *have* been
>waking up with traces of a strange fishy smell in
>my nostrils...

	   Confessions of a bed-wetter?  You be the judge.

	- Greg

Oops!

My lady is a Pisces!   :-)

John D.

    re: .7 JOHn
    
        How do you spell "O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o" ??
    
    Frederick
    

Re: .-1

Frederick! You forgot the 'o' at the end.

:-)

    
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    	burning us at the stake. Thank the Universal Forces that they
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