Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sack, as suit, is fading fast, just as the sack, as fate, is becoming more common. All the brooding talk of recession and employment cutbacks has hit the men's fashion industry where it has hit the economy: right in the middle. The staple of the business -- the standard two- or three-piece suit that fits around the average frame as trimly as a swath of burlap around 50 lbs. of Pillsbury -- has lost its allure: too drab, too ordinary and, in an approaching crunch, too superfluous. What's already in the closet is good enough...
...income retail stores like Wallachs in New York and Baskin in Chicago as well as Hart Schaffner & Marx, purveyors of off-the-peg businessman style for more than 100 years, has been enduring a three-year slump even though it retains an 11% share of the U.S. men's suit market. Brooks Brothers posted a 41% drop in operating profits for the past fiscal year. A spokesman for Marks & Spencer, the British department-store outfit that now owns Brooks, blamed "difficult trading conditions and severe price cutting by department stores...
...recent visitor wearing a navy blue vintage sailor's suit, shorts, black knee socks and an electric blue...
Cambridge natives and students alike might well have mistaken Harold Olejarz for any other middle-aged commuter passing through Harvard Square yesterday afternoon, if it weren't for the rubber suit...
...finds it humorous that so many people ask him, "Is it real?" as he models his stretchable suit. "The whole questioning of reality" is interesting, Olejarz said...