Word: pinkness
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...flatlands east of Pisa, Cascina is hardly the postcard Italy of undulating olive groves. With an auto-parts store behind the cemetery and the stripped face of a gravel mine in the distance, the burial service last week somehow seemed more Texan than Tuscan. Summers was wearing a pink Wrangler cowboy shirt and black pants inside the closed white coffin now pulled beside the back of the black Mercedes hearse...
...will ever accuse Carrie Fisher of holding back. Throughout her 30-year career, Fisher - the daughter of 1950s sweetheart Debbie Reynolds and crooner Eddie Fisher - has used her Hollywood childhood, drug addiction, mental illness and romantic failures as fodder for screenplays (Postcards from the Edge) and books (Surrender the Pink) Now the actress, 50, is on stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars...
Oddly, there wasn't much measuring involved besides the basic sleeve and collar. That's because the tailors in Pink's Ireland shop start with their regular retail-base model and then build out with the customized choices. It's like Pimp My Shirt. But since I was interested in finding someone to make a garment that hugged my contours as well as satisfied my whims, I headed to Seize sur Vingt, a small men's boutique that promised to make me a shirt from scratch...
...showed me hundreds of swatches that ran the gamut of self-consciously bizarre names, from Bitched From the Start (a Patti Smith lyric) to Adlai Stevenson. (J. Edgar Hoover is not the gayest pattern in the store; that would be Curaçao.) After considerable deliberation, I went with a pink-and-blue stripe called Equal Rights in a single-button cuff and a dark black-and-blue pattern called Levev in Napoleonic style...
...shirts arrived after about four weeks, and I cracked them open knowing that when I put them on, no one else in the world would be dressed quite like me. I convinced myself I looked a little like James Bond in my Pink 170, and the colors in Levev and Equal Rights pop far more than on any of my off-the-rack shirts. Most of all, though, they actually fit. And it's amazing how style becomes almost irrelevant when clothes look like they were made for you and you alone...