Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfonso is a most fastidious man in the matter of dress. His wardrobe holds more than 100 suits, and under no circumstances does this sporting King wear one more than six times. Some of them are cast aside after adorning his person for one brief period...
...Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast-and Druro, who failed to recognize her in her knickerbockers, was on the way to seeing purple elephants. So she rescued him, after many...
...made my way into the main lobby of the hotel, I decided that the surest way to force people of this sort to feel my contempt was to use the place just as they do, in their absurd dress suits. Accordingly, I edged through the crowd gathered in the lobby to a man in uniform standing in their midst, evidently one of the higher flunkeys. When I reached him, I said in a clear, careful voice, "Call me a bell...
Professor Haffner pointed out the harmony that existed between the dress of the period and the architectural design of the panelling and furnishings. In concluding his talk, Professor Haffner stated that toward the latter part of the eighteenth century, French architecture was copied to a great extent by other foreign countries, but without much success because of the misinterpretation that resulted...
...modern cyclist does not get the exhilaration which one felt bestride one of these mighty wheeled bicycles, especially when it was the custom to blow a horn with one free hand. Beside these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes...