Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to their book jacket, Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott let "the facts tell the bitter and damnable truth" about the British appeasement of Hitler before World War II. The facts are the same old ones, but the authors dress them up more shockingly than ever. Their story is a disgusting one, a history of miscalculation and misdirection. But if the saga of Chamberlain and his cohorts is frightening, so is the shoddy reasoning and judgment of the authors...
...dinner jacket is the keystone of the entire formal wardrobe. It comes in black and all sorts of other colors and can be worn with trousers that do not match. Although the range of colors is large--including madras, plaids, and usually garish solids--it is best to stick to black. In fact, one black dinner jacket should be enough to take you through all the social thickets you may decently expect to encounter...
...that all purpose black dinner jacket is made of tropical worsted, it will be comfortable enough to wear in summer as well as in winter. The worsted has the further virtues of standing up well and shedding wrinkles...
...much for the dinner jacket...
...flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost its excellent name to be called another variant of the dinner jacket...