Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince of Wales: "At Hurlingham, the polo place, I wore a sweater which newspapers described as 'highly colored jazz material.' A style expert said I am like my grandfather, King Edward, independent in matters of dress...
Since the fig leaf went out of style, the problem of proper dress for state occasions has bothered each succeeding generation. When Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was hastily summoned to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 B. C., he is reputed to have left his oxen hitched to the plow, but history does not say whether he changed to a fresh toga before proceeding to the Capitol. Twenty-two odd centuries later, Mrs. Jackson was intensely annoyed at some of the President's convivial adherents, who, coming in their native gard to congratulate him at his inauguration, stood in muddy boots...
Despite the pronounced mannish tendencies of the late Dr. Mary Walker, modern Washingtonians have perhaps been inclined to consider the capital comparatively free from advocates of secentric dress. But they have not yet dined with Senator Brookhart of Iowa. Shrugging his broad shoulders contemptuously at custom, precedent, and style, he insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint...
...trained commissary department, shock troops, labor liberty loans, conscription of strikers' families, and all the material, financial equipment, and propaganda necessary to wage a modern industrial class war. His prediction has had a partial fulfilment in the school for strikers which operated three months prior to the dress and waist makers' strike in New York...
Senator Brookhart, Iowa, favors a studied informality in the matter of dress...