STYLE THE SHORT OF IT

WE KNOW THEM.

We hate them.

They stand before us, a constant reminder that life is inherently unfair.

Designers, of course, see these leggy creatures as the reason to keep turning out the wee bands of fabric otherwise known as the micro mini. Who cares if all the talk is focused on of-the-moment. long-and-lean fashions like the pantsuit and ankle-grazing hemlines? This is Dallas.

At the opening of insta-hip North/South, the long and the short of it clearly pointed toward not the long- natch-but the oh-so-short.