Word: button-down
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...swept quietly over vast sections of the American psyche. A sneaking preference for what once, generations ago, was called square has broken into the open. Certain values like stable family, satisfyingly useful hard work, competition and excellence have reappeared here and there: the moral equivalents of Bass Weejuns and button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion...
...first, I went out of curiosity," Crone says. "Then I started finding really good buys." He mentions buys like 75 cents to a dollar for cotton, button-down shirts and a dollar or two for pants...
...Sister Kate-plans ten concerts on Anderson's behalf. With five down, the Taylors sought reassurance that their man would go all the way. "You're not going to crap out on us?" Livingston asked at a Boston meeting with the Congressman last May. "No," vowed the button-down, born-again Christian, "I will not crap...
...with the baggy jeans, the chinoiserie, the gypsy queen regalia. In with the snappy blue blazers and tweed hacking jackets, button-down Oxford-cloth shirts and Shetland sweaters, khaki slacks and tartan skirts. This summer and fall, the fashion-conscious woman will be wearing exactly what the fashion-unconscious woman has been wearing for decades. It is currently labeled the Preppie Look, though the style has also been known as Ivy League, Town and Country, Brooks Brothers or-in England -County. Mother would approve...
...just what a "Crimson" is. Animal, vegetable or mineral? It is none; and the search for a Harvard mascot has grown futile. Even if one were found, a Crimson would probably turn out to be some ridiculous-looking nurd approximation with grand horns, webbed feet and a Brooks Brothers button-down...