He had a home-grown style, often driving a pick-up truck to work.

Which is not to say that this year's parade lacked home-grown style.

LEAD: The fashion avant-garde has gone back into the woods for a new, home-grown style based on the functional garments of hunters, fishermen and equestrians.

But the Clean developed an idiosyncratic, home-grown style; it combined clanging guitar chords with peppy, sweet melodies, organ played with carnival abandon, snappy drumming and the occasional hum of feedback with offbeat lyrics.

It was an informal, home-grown style, and the Watersons never learned to read music.

Curiously, it was the Englishman P. G. Wodehouse who originated this home-grown style.

On the following pages, the world champion New York Yankees set the tone of our tribute to home-grown style, wearing simple yet sophisticated casual clothes.

The 15th and 16th centuries produced the uniquely home-grown ceramic style called Punchong ware, distinguished by its improvisatory, rough-and-tumble designs, as one sees in a bottle with a custardy slip swiped on in bold gestural strokes.

The younger Mr. Mickelson had a home-grown style, often driving a pick-up truck to work.

On a broader scale, home-grown styles are beleaguered by all the pressures of assimilation.