Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admonition to Sergei ("Wherever you go, do not forget your homeland,") ringing in their ears, the newlyweds made their way down a red carpet, accompanied by the recorded sounds of church bells, to their honeymoon car, a cream-colored Volga sedan. Christina, who was wearing a violet print dress, nearly stumbled before getting into the Volga, which Sergei had trouble starting. Finally the couple managed to pull away to face their incongruous future...
Says Walker of lobbying: "There is always a pressure point somewhere, if you search hard enough. You've also got to be willing to window-dress. How can you be against 'truth in lending' or 'freedom of information...
Some guests thought it was a lot of bull. But others were delighted to dress formally for the invitation-only cattle, horse and art auction in Houston's Shamrock Hilton hotel. Among the sponsors: John Connally, former Governor of Texas, who now practices law in Houston and breeds livestock. Besides cattle and horses, art by the likes of Frederic Remington was up for bids. At evening's end $507,400 worth of paintings and livestock had been sold. Best price paid for an animal: $26,000 for Connally's bull Boxcar...
...Dress codes in clubs, restaurants and schools are a form of social discipline resting on the premise that certain kinds of dress will preclude certain kinds of behavior and, of course, certain kinds of people. Reluctantly, some of the nation's fancier restaurants have started admitting the tieless. But not La Caravelle in New York City. Says Co-Owner Fred Deere: "If you give in on ties, then people will start showing up without jackets. Next you will have shirts with short sleeves, or unbuttoned to the navel, with hairy chests and gold chains all over the place. That...
...possible to defend dress codes while still finding it ridiculous that this oddly shaped rag, knotted at the throat, has come to define respectable dress in a man. The necktie did not arrive with any compelling mandate from nature. Its origins were whimsical enough. After the Croatians defeated the Turks in a battle during the 17th century, the victorious regiment was given a welcome in Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent...