RISQUE LOOKS AT THE MALL.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA - As sheriff's deputies search for a man suspected recently of videotaping under a girl's skirt at Abercrombie & Fitch fitch: see polecat. , the Town Center Drive store has been inadvertently offering free peeks at customers in dressing rooms in the women's department. The combination of the highly reflective Refers to light hitting an opaque surface such as a printed page or mirror and bouncing back. See reflective media and reflective LCD. , black flooring and the overhead spotlight in each dressing room produces a vivid silhouette silhouette (sĭl'  ĕt`), outline image, especially a profile drawing solidly filled in or a cutout pasted against a lighter background. on the floor outside the dressing-room doors, which stand about 18 inches off the ground. The dressing rooms open on to a highly trafficked shopping area. Shopper Yvonne Tall said she noticed her own reflection about eight months ago, when she was trying on pants at the Valencia store. ``I'm really tall, so I have an issue with finding pants that fit,'' said Tally, 19. ``I was trying on a pair of pants In mathematics, a pair of pants is a simple two-dimensional surface resembling a pair of pants. In hyperbolic geometry, pairs of pants are sewn together, leg to leg, or leg to waist, to create Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. with tassels at the bottom when I realized I could see a really clear reflection of myself on the floor outside the dressing room. ``Since then, when I'm shopping (at Abercrombie & Fitch,) I make sure to move to the very back of the dressing room, where I'm not near the door,'' she said. When informed of the risque ris·qué adj. Suggestive of or bordering on indelicacy or impropriety. [French, from past participle of risquer, to risk, from risque, risk; see risk.] Adj. reflections glimpsed in the dressing room area, an employee at the Valencia store dismissed the idea that passersby could see anything more than a shadowy figure. The employee, who refused to give her name, referred questions to the company's security division, located at the Abercrombie & Fitch corporate headquarters in Ohio. |
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