1.   Alerted by her dulcet tones, a crowd began to gather outside a downtown boutique and May generously offered a few fashion tips to the throng.

2.   Executives at IBM, which made news this winter by dismantling its notoriously stiff dress code, said job candidates should not take the headlines as a fashion tip.

3.   Is she taking fashion tips from the Addams family?

4.   She issues style dictums and fashion tips to clients with the authority of a hip generalissimo.

5.   Simonian did wish Williams would listen to one fashion tip.

6.   They focus on providing fashion tips, career advice, makeovers and horoscopes.

7.   Users get free seasonal updates on styles, and fashion tips are provided by Cosmopolitan magazine.

8.   President Clinton is soaking up fashion tips all along the way on his three-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region.