Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course Lucius Beebe was there--in a herringbone plaid ensemble with hand-knit foulard tie. He's so exclusive he didn't speak to a soul--just sat there on the fifty yard line, changing his tie every quarter...
Nelson R. Gidding '41, owns the University's largest collection of Scotch plaid ties, with an assortment of 260 varieties. Noted as an expert on many Scotch products, Gidding can tell a Hunting Fraser from a Dress Campbell at a glance. He as also known as one of the College's talented young writers...
...possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where...
...right up my alley," said Tom Garry next day, beaming through his bifocal glasses and stroking his green plaid jacket. "I figured out a lot of my own angles...
...indispensible link with the present. Even if your grandfather remembered him, you cannot think of Keezer as anything but agile and hardly more than middle-aged. But he has known them all from President Eliot to Teddy Roosevelt and Stillman and Morgan. With his polo coat and plaid cap, Max Keezer has been a part of Harvard since...