Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tailored shirts. The current dress-for-success fad demands conservative suits for the office, and designers such as Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren create unstructured blazers and oversized jackets for the more stylish. Just when it seemed that there was nothing left in the masculine closet to imitate, Designer Calvin Klein has made a new raid: women's underwear boldly based on men's models. Women's Wear Daily is declaring it a hit. The collection, predicts the paper, will be "the hottest look in women's lingerie since the bikini brief...
Expected price range: $50 to $150. Calvin Klein is offering a sleek and sexy new backless sundress ($190). For buyers wanting something a little more modest, Klein has oversize chambray linen shirt dresses ($290) that can be tied tight at the waist or left free to ripple in the wind...
...first annual President Calvin Coolidge Week is now a warm glow both in Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge lived before and after his presidency, and in the White House, whose current occupant is his most powerful admirer...
...tell the story of his father's taking his two boys to stand in front of a bank. "See if you can hear anything," Coolidge admonished. They could not and so reported. "I thought if you listened carefully you might hear your money working for you," the elder Calvin explained to his sons...
What defines a Japanese woman? It is not the kimono. She is more likely to wear Calvin Klein than a kimono, or even the modern Japanese designs currently fascinating New York. It is not her aspirations, which are no different from women's all over the world. She wants a husband and children, education and fair pay, a role in the larger society guaranteed by legal equality, and the right to control her childbearing...