Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costume of Cassandra's charioteer, Mr. John Weare, class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...
...hottest fashion item of the moment at Sak's Fifth Avenue (next to Elsie's) is a smart gray and white striped seersucker dinner jacket. As tradition dictates, it has one button natural shoulders, flap pockets and shawl collar...
...dacron and wool gabardine suit is something to dream about in transitional wear. The traditionally styled three-button model ($85) is wrinkle resistant and perfect for travel as well as for hot sticky days. It comes in natural and dark olive...
...prep school from another is "sometimes terribly difficult," says Taft's Headmaster Paul F. Cruikshank. But the name of his small (360 boys) school-an ivied Gothic campus in Watertown, Conn.-is hardly forgettable. It evokes the massive figure of President William Howard Taft, whose slimmer brother, Horace Button Taft, founded the school in 1890. A score of other Tafts* have since passed through; but these days another name makes Taft just as memorable-Cruikshank...
Asked if he thought integration would soon come to Mississippi, he described a little button he had seen hundreds of people in Mississippi wearing. "Those buttons say, 'Never,' and you know what they mean...