Word: overdressing
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...Bicentennial may or may not be recalled as a year of great achievement for U.S. museums, but it has certainly nurtured some of their endemic ills. One of these is a manic itch to overdress exhibitions. It is highly contagious, and now sweeps through the Whitney Museum, whose big Bicentennial show, "200 Years of American Sculpture," opened this month. This is a historically complex and potentially important survey, involving seven curators, 345 works of art and a catalogue as thick as a phone book. But in order to secure impact, the Philadelphia pop architects Venturi & Rauch were engaged to package...
...Lampoon and the small minority at Harvard for its bad manners, the average undergraduate at both colleges did not treat the matter with any great seriousness. The student at Cambridge felt that the Tiger football players were a little rougher than ordinary and that their undergraduate body did overdress; while the man of Princeton, although somewhat rankled at being called an underwear salesman, still looked forward to the next football game with the Crimson as one of the highpoints of the fall. This was apparently the limit of the "evident animosity...
After a six-week visit to the U.S., including a look at Texas, French Fashion Creator Jacques Path sailed for home. He opined that U.S. women have "a grand sense of elegance," but sometimes overdress. This, he added quickly, does not apply to Texas women, who not only dress simply but are also beautiful...
...Save the Queen." The folding doors opened, disclosed the broad gold-laced backs of the court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother to the single throne on the dais, bowed, took his place in the brilliant...