Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From a parody of Erica Jong: "He fiddles with my control panel, but my landing gear won't retract, so to speak...
...hiking down Fifth Avenue. Students in goose-down vests and baggy sweatpants are trekking through Harvard Square. Dudes in lumber jackets are hanging out in Beverly Hills. Few of these folks have a clue how to swing a fly rod or an ax. But they do know that outdoor gear designed for the backwoods has come in from the cold for wear everywhere...
...First Family may help push the roughing-it fashions into high gear. The President-elect clomps around Plains, Ga., in cowhide ankle boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt. Brother Billy breakfasted (on grits and Pabst) at the Best Western Motel in Americus, Ga., last week wearing denims and a blue plaid shirt opened to reveal his new, post-election T shirt emblazoned with REDNECK LOBBYIST. Of course, to them and many Americans the gear look is an old look, something they have been comfortably wearing for years...
Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear for 50 years or more. Says Bean's bemused merchandising manager, Fred McCabe: "Fashion has just come round to us. We certainly haven't gone fashionable ourselves...
...Miller getting into unisex gear. His problem is overdeveloped hamstring muscles. Rather than be hobbled by a pulled or sore hamstring, Miller dons his Free Spirit before every practice and every game. "A runner like me," he explains, "needs muscle control when I stop, start and make my cuts. The girdle keeps my hamstring from flapping around." Says Dr. Don Cooper, the Oklahoma State team physician who sold Miller and three of his teammates on the idea last season: "The girdle provides an evenness of support over the whole length of the hamstring, from the pelvic bone to the back...