Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hottest news for the cold season are tailored outfits made from a new super-stretch fabric that feels more comfortable, sticks much closer to the facts. For $65, Jack Winter has whipped up a stretch suit with a thin, double-breasted jacket that would look more familiar in a Courreges workshop than on a practice slope. Sleeker still is a $40 White Stag jump suit with a neckline that plunges well below the fall line, exposing an Irish sweater, a turtleneck jersey-or whatever front a girl wants...
...those who cannot kick the coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...
...while Hero Hugh O'Brian, 37, went tearing by with two battle companions in a scene from something called Ambush Bay, filming on location in the Philippines. O'Brian swashbuckled past on cue, but then the buffalo ad-libbed by charging the hero, tearing through his combat jacket with its horns, fracturing two of his ribs and leaving him out cold in an irrigation ditch. What a break. As soon as O'Brian gets out of the hospital, they'll shoot the scene where "I bravely get up and shout, 'Come...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
Instead they moved the party to an apartment on Western Ave. There his condition became worse, and he attracted considerable attention from neighbors. He was finally subdued with the aid of several people and taken to the University Health Services in a strait jacket. But Stillman Infirmary was unable to accept him as a patient in his condition and rushed him to the Boston facility...