Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things I remember is beating Harvard once." Silk recalls. "Afterward, we had a big fight, and it's kind of funny looking back now because me and O'Callahan were fighting George and Jackie Hughes (now with the Colorado Rockies organization), and now we're all pretty good friends...
...have any Beanpot memories I really cherish," Nilan says, shifting conversation toward some of his other collegiate performances. But when he speaks of the whole tournament, beyond his own record in it, the West Roxbury native voices feelings for it that echo Silk's: "The Beanpot itself is a great tournament. I feel it's the greatest one in the country, with all its tradition and everything." And, like Silk, he says he grew up eagerly awaiting the day he would get to skate out on the Garden...
Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...
...rich Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise and purple. The thinness of the leather and the satiny texture...
Indeed, a well-made leather garment will last ten to 15 years. It travels well and does not wrinkle easily. And leather seldom if ever has to be cleaned. Exults Arleen Sorkin, a Manhattan actress-model: "When I was wearing silk, the dry cleaner loved me. When I was wearing white cotton, the Chinese laundry loved me. Now I have a $300 chamois dress and, you know, it's hand washable. It's also great for cleaning records." Some leather buffs use an art gum eraser on stains, while others maintain that leather should be permitted, like...