Word: cordovan
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...thick glasses and a gold expansion watch band. In that garb, he was able to get only twelve secretaries out of 50 to go to the files for him. Later, in an "upper-middle-class" outfit-styled hair, expensive blue suit, beige shirt, silk polka-dot tie and brown cordovan shoes-he visited 50 more secretaries. This time, 42 of the 50 did as they were bade...
...nose knows. Cool pools in the middle of the desert turn out to be heat vapor or over-the-horizon reflections. A bartender can suddenly split into identical twins. But drop a blindfolded man into the middle of a place that whiffs of tanned calfskin, saddle soap and cordovan polish. Is he in a shoe store? Not necessarily...
...glowing, suntanned American beauty is being replaced in many places by the unsunkissed miss hiding herself under a ruffly parasol, straight out of Gone With the Wind. "Tanning ages skin," says Evelyn Marshall. "It etches those lines around the eyes and mouth." As another expert put it, "The cordovan look is definitely out, and this applies to the whole body, not just the face...
...cordovan shoe glows red and blue along its welt, the arches of bare feet purple in the corrosive illumination that gives simple poses a seductive superreality. His images are lush with cosmetic painterliness; his white backgrounds are impastos of frosting...
...plastics; Du Pont is calling its product a "poromeric material" (meaning full of microscopic holes) until it can decide on a trademark name. The shoe material is made in two or three layers: outside is a polyvinyl chloride film that can be treated to look like any leather, from cordovan to suede; next is either a layer of nylon or orlon (Du Pont) or one of polyurethane foam (Arnav); the shoe's inside layer is one of the standard lining materials...