Word: epaulet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still, to be sure, bedazzled by surfaces: "Fashion, to put it simply, is the code language of status." This is an old Wolfe cry, updated to keep pace with the new scruffiness, or "Funky Chic." He insists that people's choice in clothing−down to the last epaulet or earth shoe−tells more about them than they think or may want known. Hence Wolfe constantly maintains a red alert for apparitions that everyone else has grown accustomed to overnight. He is invariably delighted with "such marvelous figures as the Debutante in Blue Jeans...
...bells sounded the appointed hour of 11 o'clock on June 28, and the snare drums rolled darkly for Sergeant Thomas Hickey. All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder. The 80 soldiers in the ceremonial guard stood at attention, bayonets fixed. A crowd of thousands had gathered in a field just off New York's Bowery Lane to watch Sergeant Hickey die on the gallows. The condemned man was "unaffected and obstinate to the last," Artillary Surgeon William Eustis reported later, "except that when the chaplain took...