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...thing to wear a button that says WE TRY HARDER; it's another to prove it. When Board Chairman Robert C. Townsend of Avis Rent-A-Car turned up at his office in Garden City, N.Y., one day wearing his company blazer-the kind worn by Avis folks who deal with the public-a bunch of his subordinates started trying harder. They began wearing their own Avis blazers, red or blue, to the office. Soon supervisory personnel in Avis stations all over the world were wearing them. Last week a group of 16 of them posed happily for their...
Esprit at Fidelity means dark blue socks, a button-down shirt, neatly knotted blue-and-gold striped regimental tie, grey slacks, shiny black shoes, navy blazer with brass buttons and a gold F on the breast pocket. Neat, but not too gaudy. Even in the office, as he feeds IBM cards into the computer, the Fidelity man is certainly a credit to de corps. No longer is there suppressed boyhood envy of the white-suited Good Humor man, no longer jealousy of bankers' grey. A fig for Braniff stewardesses in Pucci bloomers. Even those Avis chaps with their blazers...
...frenetic. One contessa's elegant evening of black-tie art patronage wound up with frugging into the wee hours until neighbors, annoyed at the noise, pelted the windows with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket in a whiz-bang blazer of multicolored baby bunting. A Japanese clothed all in bright green staged a sort of Zen happening (a Jappening?) by sitting down right in the middle of Piazza San Marco, but by then everyone was too sated and wilted by the heat to care...
...victory ceremony, there was an awkward moment: tradition calls for the defending champion to help the new champion into the winner's green blazer. "Fellows," said Nicklaus, "I'll put my own coat...
Horrors! Is TIME trying to start a new look in fashion by leaving the last button on its double-breasted blazer unbuttoned? I heartily applaud the resurgence of the Double-B style, but I feel obliged to point out that no Double-B man who is worth his brass would leave a button unbuttoned...