Word: corduroyed
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...first spring and summer fashion shows in Manhattan have featured jumpsuits by other top designers in jersey, Liberty prints, slinky evening models and versions with Kabuki sleeves and toggles. Kenzo's wide-wale corduroy in slate gray has banded trouser bottoms and goes well with construction boots...
...talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes are deepset, big and bulging. He has a cigarette dangling from...
...recalls the progress of the case and the characters he talks of come in on cue, sometimes getting up out of seats they occupy in the student-section-grandstand that faces the regular seating from the back of the stage. The horses are played by lithe men in brown corduroy, with soldered skeletons of horse's hooves and pullover horse's heads. Everything works, except for the use of loudspeakers to amplify the horse's cries; but these aren't used often enough to damage much of the action. Equus is far more adventurous theatrically than intellectually, and that shouldn...
Will the "retro fashions" of the salons-most of which cost $2,000 and up -mean anything to ordinary clothes buyers? Certainly not to the faded-denim and corduroy set; and very little to devotees of sportswear, still the most popular look by far among U.S. women. The couturiers almost self-consciously shied away from anything resembling sportif, the lines that in the past have been most successfully "knocked off' by ready-to-wear imitators...
ONCE WHEN I was in New Haven, I caught Segal alone in his apartment. He was informally (sloppily) attired in mangy T-shirt and dirty corduroy pants. When I promised not to mention Love Story, he agreed to discuss his early life...