Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally caved in and bought a tux. Or you got your credit card bill for dinner at the Four Seasons, a corsage/boutiniere, a cab home and two tickets to the Citystep formal. Or you've been wondering what to do Saturday night when all your roommates are at your house winter formal with their boyfriends. One way or another, Harvard's obsession with formals has probably come to your attention...
Part of the attraction, of course, is the formal attire. There's a certain thrill to playing dress-up, practicing for the company Christmas party or campaign fundraiser in the distant (read: post-graduation) future. And after slouching through the Yard countless times in jeans and a parka, we all want to show that we can shine a little when we make the effort...
...With formals, as with peek-a-boo, the fun is in both seeing and being seen. We want to show off our fine feathers and see how everyone else looks. Formal attire brings out the best and the worst in fashion sense: like the Oscars, even the most boring formal can be enlivened by fashion disasters...
Carville, whose sneakers and jeans stood in marked contrast to the more formal attire of the other panelists, said that, unlike McCurry, he is free to speak more bluntly on many of the issues...
While first-years were clad mostly in traditional black, brown and white, some of Annenberg's dining hall employees donned their own "semi-formal" attire...