Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tunic. Pop went the button on one shirt cuff as he told the Congolese to "roll up your sleeves, strip off your ties and get to work." Pop went the button on his other cuff as his bug-eyed audience began to realize that he meant them to follow suit. "Roll 'em up," Mobutu called to the uproarious crowd. "You too!" he shouted to his assembled Cabinet ministers, who sheepishly followed orders...
Hottest news for the cold season are tailored outfits made from a new super-stretch fabric that feels more comfortable, sticks much closer to the facts. For $65, Jack Winter has whipped up a stretch suit with a thin, double-breasted jacket that would look more familiar in a Courreges workshop than on a practice slope. Sleeker still is a $40 White Stag jump suit with a neckline that plunges well below the fall line, exposing an Irish sweater, a turtleneck jersey-or whatever front a girl wants...
Another variation on the theme is a stretch suit (Ernest Engel: $130) that features a convertible collar and bell-bottom pants that fit-over the boot (an inner sleeve runs inside the boot to keep out the snow). Even knickers, once available only in bulky corduroy and baggy wool, now come in stretch-fabric that hugs the hips and thighs tighter-and rather more attractively -than a girdle...
Handel, Glinka and Dvorak. Against this soothing background, Astronaut Lovell was allowed to strip off his space suit and fly in his underwear. He thus became the first U.S. astronaut to fly without a pressurized suit, which affords the only protection against a sudden, accidental decompression of the Gemini spacecraft...
...cubists, he points out, long ago began incorporating materials from the real world (labels, newspaper clippings, playing cards) into their stuck-together collages. The surrealists later cottoned to the idea, as Max Ernst put it, of "coupling two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them." Dadaist Marcel Duchamp hung up mass-produced snow shovels and labeled them ready-made...