Word: cummerbunds
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...tuxedo accessory business suffering these days around Cambridge. While black silk bow tie and cummerbund sets costing $16.50 are the most popular choice at Keezer's, patrons at the Crimson Shop prefer brighter colors. "Patterned silk brocades are doing really well," one employee says...
However, colored cummerbunds present certain color-coordination problems with one's date. "What I wear depends on what the girl is wearing. You have to match the cummerbund to the dress," says Paul S. Sherman '88, another tuxedo aficianado in the Kroks...
...much does it cost to rent a tux with a striped, crimson cummerbund and bow tie, black shoes, studs, cufflinks and a ruffled formal shirt...
...This was the moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across his chest was the purple sash that identified him as an Ingenue Escort. He was grinning at their friends, who were applauding as she and he descended the steps to Moon River, played by the dance - band on the stage...
...abduct Luisa and allow himself to be beaten by Matt, and philosophize on the Meaning of It All. Roy is a good actor, but he is all wrong for the part, El Gallo is supposed to be dark, handsome, suave, sophisticated and on-key; Roy has a paunch his cummerbund can't hide, his hair is thin, his voice is weak, and the script conspires to make his philosophical pronouncements come off as childish prattle...