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"David's daughter for St. David's day," cried a musical Welsh voice in the bar at Brown's Hotel as its owner raised his pint high. Across the street, their collars turned up against the icy wind, the voters of Carmarthen constituency in Wales were queueing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reeling Blow | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Coats a la cover, collars high,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEAR DEAD DAYS | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

The same naval predilection was responsible for the World War II boom, and since Harvard was then a training school for cadets, Snow recalls a stream of them coming in for paper collars. But the NROTC boys have not carried the salty tradition forward, and Snow wonders "if anyone in...

Author: By Robert M. Pringle, | Title: The Last Paper Collar Factory in the Country | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

The paper collar industry started during the Civil War when the South's control of cotton cut off the supply of cloth collars. And many people preferred the substitute and continued to wear them after the War. The Reversible came into being in 1866 and has made paper collars ever...

Author: By Robert M. Pringle, | Title: The Last Paper Collar Factory in the Country | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

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