Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white football shoes and natty street clothes, Joe Namath, 25, swinging quarterback of the New York Jets pro-football team, cuts a striking figure. Come fall, he will be positively dazzling. Seems a New York furrier and Jets fan has whipped up a $5,000 double-breasted mink coat for sale to the passer. His left knee hurts too much for play these days, but he managed to sweat out the final fitting in 85° temperature at the Jets training field...
...this in yesterday's L.A. Times? It's Rex Reed talking about women. Which, quite surprisingly, I find I'm a sudden authority on-according to some people." He shows me the clipping, which contains the information that "his mere presence in an Edwardian coat and ruffled Palacio shirt" assures "A" status to any party. And just what is a Palacio shirt? "It's a store in New York," he informs me. "Actually I have most of my shirts made at Fisher's, in London...
Young executives at Boston's Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. sometimes show up for work in sport coats, occasionally even in turtlenecks. "But if they want to become a boss," says one vice president, "they had better dress like the boss does, which means white shirt, dark suit, dark shoes and socks and a conservative tie." Similar ground rules apply in the automobile industry. "I saw someone in a yellow-and-green-plaid sport coat walking through the lobby," says a General Motors Corp. executive. "He was probably a summer replacement...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
Horse-show habits are so humdrum these days-all jodhpurs and jackets and little black caps. But the equestrian quadrille calls for costumes as well as class, and Britain's Princess Anne, 17, was making the most of it prettily dressed in a grey brocade Georgian coat, lace jabot, tricorn hat and wig. To the strains of Strauss, she and three chums put their mounts through the paces, and when the day's events were over, young Anne had won the Senior Individual and Training Cup, a nice surprise to take home to her horse-loving parents...