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Said a West Coast clothier: "We're on the verge of the greatest revolution the men's clothing industry has ever felt." Revolution was not quite the word, since man's basic garb will still be a pair of pants and a coat. But change there is-a major change unthought of as little as five years...
...underground association distributed pamphlets urging Catholics to display their loyalty to the faith by wearing badges of Roman Catholic organizations and bowing to priests "proudly and ostentatiously." In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, gangs of Roman Catholic youths beat up several bogus priests-apparently government agents in clerical garb-who were roaming the streets creating disturbances and yelling insults at women...
...hours later that night, Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh, the thin-lipped military prosecutor, drove up to the barracks and sent for the prisoners. Two months ago nine of the ten prisoners had been splendidly uniformed brother officers of his. Now, in shapeless prison garb, heads shaven, stubbly faces pale, they shuffled in. The general glared at the first man, and said harshly: "You are called here to make your will. Know what I mean?" Colonel Siamak cleared his throat. "Yes," he said, "I know." The appeal had failed...
...Sisters of the Divine Spirit, a newly established U.S. Roman Catholic order for teaching and social work, with relatively relaxed rules (including a yearly vacation for members), showed off a radically modernized habit (see cut) that looked more like a chic town suit than nuns' garb. Designed in accordance with Pope Pius XII's plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels...
...truck on which they traveled was so overcrowded that they rode atop the driver's cab. At that time, Chou-as well as the other Chinese Communist leaders-wore peasant garb and espoused poverty. Chou was very friendly; Mao Tse-tung even asked my husband to come back and organize a Y.M.C.A. in Yenan. Both, however, told my husband that no Christian could join the Chinese Communist Party...