Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about that dress? Does the long-sleeved, belted, blue shirtwaist from the Gap still matter? Or is it like all those McGuffins in Hitchcock movies, just another evidentiary dead end stuck into the script to fool us for a while...
...starters, the dress had nothing to do with Monica's getting immunity. When Ken Starr's lawyers first asked Lewinsky about the dress last month, her lawyers refused to let her answer. Don't even go there, they warned Starr's deputies. The prosecutors dropped the matter, and contrary to other published hints, Lewinsky got full immunity for herself and her parents without any mention of the dress that day or the next, when the immunity deal was inked. So much for that rumor...
...dress sure seemed to help refresh Bill Clinton's memory of his relationship with Lewinsky. When she showed up at the courthouse on July 29, she had a surprise in her duffel bag. Suddenly, prosecutors had probable physical evidence of the affair. But did they? The main reason Lewinsky's lawyers did not offer the dress to Starr earlier is that no one really knew what was on it. It might be semen, they told TIME last week, but even they have never been sure. Before turning the dress over, they declined to test it, and they didn't want...
Lewinsky had several other good reasons to do that. First, if Clinton's semen was on the dress, it might be useful at a later time in case he and his operatives called her a liar, deluded or crazy, as they were planning to do. But the real power of the dress was not to punish Clinton but to smoke him out of his denial. Her privacy destroyed and her dignity under siege, the last thing Lewinsky wants to do is spend the fall and next spring answering prurient questions from Congressmen about her private life. The sheer possibility...
...this means in actual threads is lots of variations on cargo and sailor pants; safari-esque tops that Bartlett calls "ranger" shirts; jackets and trousers made of sailcloth, waxed cotton or suede; and colors that range from "cement" and "sand" to "citrus." Bartlett offers his customers a chance to dress dangerously but not ludicrously (well, except maybe for the hot pink cashmere stretch jacket paired with hot pink leather pants...