It's that broad allure that has
built an almost cult - like devotion among consumers who normally don't have much in common: from urban hipsters to
suburban moms, from preteens to
boomers, all united in their common desire for comfortable, flattering clothes — not to mention peace and happiness.
In what one cleric called the «
boom of numbers and dollars and
buildings,» too many
suburban parishioners had been recruited, as Bishop Lord remarked, «who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.»