Word: corduroys
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Dressed in a white shirt, waist-hugging black jacket and black tie, Berry seems grotesquely out of place. Behind him stands The Butter, squirming self-consciously in non-conformist natty tweed, marred corduroy and blue denim...
Until we know if Dylan is alive and well in a Columbia recording studio, we can only look back through seven albums (The Greatest Hits of ... doesn't count) which took him from the corduroy Huck Finn of "Bob Dylan" to the out-of-focus kaleidoscope poet of "Blonde on Blonde." In the liner notes to that first album Nat Hentoff blessed him as one of "the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that self-assertive tradition." Self-deceptive would be more accurate. Dylan was just another work shirt and guitar buried under hyperbolic interpretation...
...looking for a place to "crash" (sleep). Wise hippies wrap themselves in scrapes against the San Francisco chill, or else wear old Army or Navy foul-weather jackets and sturdy boots. One way to identify the new arrivals is by their mod clothes: carefully tailored corduroy pants, hip-snug military jackets, snap-brimmed hats like those worn by Australian soldiers (also known as Diggers...
...shoulder patches or arm stripes and big numerals on the front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance page quality" and the astronaut look, mixing his capes with Layne Nielsen's visored helmets, or putting together a long corduroy coachman's coat with vest, pants and satin ascot shirt ("It's a combination of George Sand and Cher...
...other Cambridge, meanwhile, doe-eyed, ash-blonde Ann Mallalieu, 21, daughter of a British Board of Trade minister, showed up in a black, bell-bottomed corduroy trouser suit to accept her election victory as president of the Cambridge Union, the university's 151-year-old debating society. "I think," said she, delivering the knockout, "that they voted for me as a person and not as a woman...