Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional reccoon coat fedes farther into the past and the bulky coat of recent years gives way to the lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. That felt hat still crown the style of Harvard's well dressed...
...Give us a few inches around our necks. You ladies can take off your jackets when it is too hot, and appear in your blouses. Why not men?" A curious woman in his audience then asked Dr. Lin why, contrary to his sartorial convictions, he was wearing a coat and tie. Shrugging philosophically, he replied: "I was asked...
...quiet, behind the scenes war between Union porters and freshman proctors has arisen over the ruling that a coat is a suit coat and a tie is not a shoe string...
Patrick started the controversy when he posted a set of rules defining freshman dress. "A coat is hereby defined to be a suit coat. A jacket, sweater, extra shirt, etc., does not qualify," writes Patrick. "A tie is defined as a four-in-hand tie or a bow tie. Shoe string ties do not qualify, nor do searfs," he continued. Patrick contends that "the Harvard freshman has lost his sartorial splendor...
...character") was softened by the timid lover ("With a little more assurance or a little less love, I would perhaps have been sublime and would have had her"). The fluttering social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb frill . . . My whole soul appeared") was brought to earth by the lucid critic ("I realize that the works I've written stink...