FALL FASHION FORECAST: `GAP, GLAM AND GOTH'

FALL FASHION FORECAST: `GAP, GLAM AND GOTH'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- How's this for a motley crew: a fashion expert says Britney Spears, Austin Powers and Sid Vicious will be the three style icons for teens this fall. Jimmy Newcomer of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York says back-to-school fashions will fall in one of three categories: "Gap," "Glam" and "Goth." "Gap-sters" are preppy, athletic types who wear Britney Spears-like oversized pants with low waists, turtleneck sweater dresses and denim skirts. "Glam" teens wear psychedelic velvet bellbottoms, miniskirts and hot pants with boots, "a la" the characters in "Austin Powers." Finally, Newcomer says "Goth" teens adopt the look of 1970's punk rockers like Sid Vicious: black t-shirts, pierced and purposefully scarred body parts, and dirty or torn leather pants.