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...students who enter Harvard wearing the clothing of an urban dictate leave campus in sweater vests and loafers, ready to face a corporate world in which causal Fridays do not include construction boots or Nike Air Force One sneakers. Entire student groups are aware of the social implications their attire??Kuumba adheres to a strict uniform of dressy black clothes and kente cloth stoles, and the Black Men’s Forum’s bi-weekly Tie Day is motivated by group solidarity and the countering of Black male stereotypes...

Author: By Kimberly D. Williams and Alexandra C. Wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: The Politics Of Black Style | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...little baffling; why would the aristocratic and starchy Lords marry women who look like mentally disturbed paupers? It’s even stranger when you consider that Iolanthe and the Fairy Queen (Johanna S. Karlin ’05) are dressed according to more conventional notions of fairy attire??blue robes for Iolanthe and an impossibly billowing gown for the Queen...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, ON THEATER | Title: Musical Fairy Dramas Amuse in ‘Iolanthe’ | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Here, loading palettes and crates are stacked neatly along the walls. Allen, sporting chef’s attire??but sadly, no hat—escorts us past miniature forklifts, speaking over the bustling noise of the kitchen. We get amicable waves as we work our way past folks preparing gallons of tuna salad and corn salad in vats that look like enormous Tupperware. Yards of vegetables are lined up neatly on twenty-feet steel counters, ready to become salad fixings. King-Kong-sized industrial mixers and pumping devices churn away in the background. This ain?...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Journey to the Center of HUDS | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...appropriately dressed in decorous attire??matching handbags and shoes, bien sûr—we entered the sanctity of the Bristol Lounge feeling as though we belonged. The Bristol Lounge is one of those rare gems that seems to transport you back to an age where ladies really did lunch, gentlemen smoked cigars and cucumber sandwiches were the snack-food of choice. Beacon Hill grandmothers luxuriated on overstuffed armchairs while their tow-headed grandchildren bounced up and down on equally comfortable, homey sofas. Near the elegant bar that lined one side of the room, harassed businesspeople took...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Height of Elegance | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

Craig, or “Billy Dee Adams,” wrapped himself in cellophane plastic for the talent competition—for which the contestants were supposed to don formal attire??and performed an “oral hygiene” dance which left the entire room smelling of mouthwash...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Sweep ‘Miss Harvard’ | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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