Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:05 pm:

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Cedo said he's sick of hearing people call his town a "blue-collar city." That's so yesterday. "We're a lot closer to the lattes and laptops of Seattle than to the Rust Belt of Pittsburgh," he says. "Pittsburgh is what we used to be."

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A tip: Sneakers, baseball caps and athletic gear are big "no's" in Floods' dress code. In fact, Seattle casual doesn't cut an impression anywhere in dress-up Detroit. Instead of parkas and hiking boots, stylin' Detroiters wear full-length cashmere and polished Italian leather -- when they're not doing stepping-out alligator.

"I think we're the best-dressed city in the country," says Circuit Court Judge Craig Strong, who slips out of boring judicial robes into look-here fashion: lime-green, pink and double-breasted red linen suits, white full-length fur coats, feathered fedoras. He keeps 100 suits in rotation. His motto: "The quickest way to get to where you're going is to look like you've already arrived."

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Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 6:41 pm:

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I mentioned that she should check out Detroityes.com

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