Word: capesize
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In Moscow's snow-clad streets celebrating infantrymen in fleece-lined leather coats and yellow fur hoods, provincial troops in worn quilted jackets and spiked woolen forage caps, Cossack officers in capes, spurred knee boots and high astrakhans would not reason with their joy. In the street, a grinning...
Jay Thorpe: Elizabethan touches in the form of high standing collars on evening gowns, capes, daytime suits.
A knot of the idle curious pressed around the ropes. Inside the shut-off area -a stretch of bomb-racked street back of Victoria Station, London-grotesque figures moved about: men dressed like sailors out in some supernatural storm, in great shiny capes, voluminous shiny trousers, boots, gloves, masks, helmets...
First to prescribe uniforms in a U. S. girls' school, Miss Ruutz-Rees introduced them, over her girls' objections, in 1897. Uniforms now are Rosemary blue (matching her eyes) tweed skirts and sweaters for fall and winter, gingham dresses for spring, blue capes for chapel, star-shaped berets...
Hollywood has done it many times before; and in all probability it will do it many times again. But the fascination of Tudor England seems to hold American moviegoers entranced and they come to see tales of the Virgin Queen screened and re-screened. Perhaps it's the sword-play...