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Fashion Week tones down the glitz

As a seamstress somewhere once said, "This needs to come in a few inches."

The players in New York's Fashion Week, under way tomorrow in Bryant Park, are cinching their belts, tailoring shows to reflect caution with budgets, but hardly sacrificing the pizzazz guests expect from the semiannual event.

"We're not in favor of overly conspicuous consumption in a difficult economic period,...

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