There are also poncho-styled tops and one-sleeve designs that follow contemporary Western trends.

What is happening here is part of a larger Western trend away from resource-based economies like ranching, mining and logging.

Many Western trends have surfaced in Moscow during its tumultuous drive toward capitalism.

Rap has come to Russia, but as with most Western trends, with considerable delay and inevitable modifications.

At least, he says, until some new Western trend comes along to be imitated and, in time, transformed into something more purely Russian.

The relationship between traditional and Western European trends was a subject of heated polemics and outstanding personalities sustained the debates.

In other areas, there was more hostility to the new Western trends.

"This is their link to Western trends," Jeff Custer, a spokesman for the organization in Washington, said yesterday.

Modern, experimental, so-called Western trends were frowned upon in music, art, literature and dance.

It has been steadily losing market share in Japan, where consumers are following Western trends and switching to wine and other drinks.