Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next time you go to a sedate dinner party in old Back Bay, don't be surprised if that immaculate young man begins to proffer whispered comments on your dirty collar. He may even inform you of the dandruff on your dinner jacket. Take a good look at him before you get too embarrassed...
This policy, says Ranney, was tolerable up to the fall of France even though it bound us in a legal straight-jacket and asked that we surrender "the rights for which we had already fought two wars...
...Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks like any four-months-old Jane. Without...
Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...
...remembered, one that people discussed noisily and excitedly, something called "Faith for Living." which produced a lot of new ideas about the most familiar and important things in life and rediscovered a lot of old ones. Vag got up out of the chair and put on his jacket. He was going up to hear Lewis Mumford speaking in Emerson D at 8 this evening...