Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions of them. Even her dressier duds have the aged-in feeling of favored sportswear. Maybe better than anyone else just now, Hamnett captures the roughed-up elegance of the everyday. Everything she makes is a little playful, like her swimsuits, and as homey as a pair of jeans. And her denims, indeed, tempt the wearer...
They put limbs in limbo, but jumpsuits are dressier than ever...
...Monterey Park, Joanna Dressier was packing suitcases to flee when she heard a thud. Said she: "I looked outside and saw my husband and two friends being pushed by the mud against and underneath a car. I couldn't get the front door open, so I bashed a window. I threw my dogs out, then I jumped out." Her husband and friends survived, but her house was badly damaged. Ray Linton, another Monterey Park resident, salvaged little more than a stereo, a couple of cans of honey and some dented pans from his house, which collapsed. For drinking water...