Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invisible. And if one of his colleagues - or two of them - turns up in the same outfit he is wearing, he does not feel embarrassed, as would his wife. He feels reassured. His instructions to his clothier are likely to consist of asking for a suit, a shirt or a pair of shoes "just like what I've got on." But whether he is aware of it or not, the U.S. male is indeed subject to fashion. It is not because he likes it; it is because he can't help it. Take derbies...
...find one when the time comes for a new hat? Rarely. So he buys a soft felt, because that is all there is to buy. And whatever happened to the all-white suit, a favorite of President Harding? Where is the Chesterfield, the spat, and the well-starched evening shirt? The Unbuttoned Look. But such changes are relatively glacial, and the menswear industry wistfully eyes the process of seasonal obsolescence in women's fashions. The makers of men's clothes have had their successes, for instance, in the spectator sporting look...
Dressed in leather boots, black pants, a striped shirt, and and indescribable, Golux-like hat, Miss Lillie sang such numbers as "I heard My Goldfish Yedeling" and did the twist with Laurence H. Scott, teaching fellow in History and Literature. She also recalled that she once told a waiter who spilled coffee on her dress, "Never darken my Dior again...
...weakling of the Charles Atlas ads, who takes his girl friend to the beach and winds up getting sand kicked in his face. Tom actually weighs in at 130 Ibs., but his skin is the color of bleached Irish lin en, and a small-size track shirt hangs so loose on his scrawny chest that the letters on the front spell OYOL. Being skinny, though, has certain compensations-and Miler O'Hara manages to make the most of them. On his way from the airport to last week's New York Athletic Club Games, he remembered that...
...Ruth Paine, "he would hitchhike out. He would watch television. He liked the World War II movies, and he simply loved football. He'd watch the college football games on Saturday and the pro games on Sunday, lying there on the floor, usually dressed in a white T shirt and slacks. He went looking for a job, and I gave him a city map of the Dallas-Fort Worth area -that infamous map-so he could find the places." After Kennedy's death that map was found in Oswald's room...