Word: paisleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roll collar granny prints epaulets mitotic paisley double-breasted checks shiny hankie serpent tie four buttons bouffant Tom Jones sleeves French cuffs wide leather belt suede spade polka dot high rise plaid low rise dress non-dress stovepipe pinstripe bell-bottom subtle trumpet blaring--these clothes are moving, the whole store is moving. The music pounding out from the radio baby baby baby while these clothes whirl you around and around...
...help you?" asks the salesman Larry. A little guy, about the size of a jockey, with brown hair that flows down his head and wraps around his ears. A thin colorless face. But it's the clothes you look at. His pants. Unbelievable. A garden of paisley. Blue for the background. Quietly blue. And then WATCH OUT. Silver paisley and red and gold, all at once. Moving when he moves. Moving when he doesn't move. Baby baby baby says the radio...
...clamber out of the tweed bag, baby. Mod can be creative. "I don't believe in this color combination bit," says Larry as he touches his wide tie, blue polka dots on a green background. "The other day I had on a plaid vest, a granny print shirt and paisley bell-bottoms. Everyone knows you don't wear plaid and paisley and granny print together. But it was groovy. I was digging the patterns...
...apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer, 60, a widow, was beaten, strangled with a blue and red Paisley necktie, and raped in a quiet park where she had walked her dog every morning for years...
...technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley robe and a huge hat like the top of a party favor), the music induces a pleasurable sense of swingingly elegant decadence...