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...ranges inquire about shrinkage and try to find a fabric which will wear well. Higher priced garments have better quality interlinings which make a difference after being worn for a year and dry cleaned. A better coat will be more likely to fit smoothly and not pucker, too. In plaid sport coats, the plaid will be cut so that the sleeves match horizontally with the body of the coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intricacies Of Suit-Making | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...bride wore a plaid sports shirt and blue jeans that were several sizes too big. The groom wore an open-necked blue shirt, faded jeans, pale boots. Astride horses, surrounded by prize Santa Gertrudis cattle, backdropped by the Andes, Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller played host last week to newsmen while honeymooning at Monte Sacro, a 14,826 acre Rockefeller ranch in Venezuela. Invited by her new husband to pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Happy Honeymoon | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...advantage of seeing what happened with stamps in the U.S. You have an initial competitive advantage; then your rivals have stamps and you lose the advantage. But you're stuck with the stamps." They haven't seen anything yet. The U.S.'s MacDonald Stamp Co. (Plaid Stamps) is exploring the British market, and giant Sperry & Hutchinson (Green Stamps) will launch an assault this summer. More immediately. Great Universal Stores' Sir Isaac Wolfson now owns five small stamp companies, and is expected to begin issuing stamps in his 2.600 retail outlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Stamp War | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...colleges tend toward an undergraduate uniform, but nowhere is it more widely and carefully adopted than Smith. The well-groomed Smithie is moderate in dress, neither ostentatious nor sloppy; she looks classically well-scrubbed and cheerful in her Pepsodent smile, Pringle sweater, Ship-n'. Shore blouse, and pleated plaid skin. Wool knee socks and brown Bass Weejuns complete the basic picture...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

With the holiday season here, Cambridge shops are full of ideas for Christmas gift-giving. Adele Bragar thinks her Scotch mohair scarf, in either a solid color or plaid, makes an exciting present. She is featuring Siamese silk and Kashmiri silk scarves, too, as well as imported jewelry from Mexico, India, and Spain with many, many items under $5. You can pick up your fake Persian lamb hat which is being seen all over this season for only $4 at Adele Bragar...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: The Clothes Horse | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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