Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protagonists, in which Pamela plays a secretary who goes to Sardinia for a weekend with friends. While there, the travelers decide to seek out a real bandit in his cave. To evade police, the frolicsome group dresses up like hunters-which explains Pamela's hip-hugging checked suit, her cartridge belt, and even the dead game look on her face...
Ergo consists of a series of episodic developments in the rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
...speaker is a muscular Detroit Negro ("I was one of those zoot-suit boys") whose scarred forearms bear witness to a misspent life of violence. In all his 44 years, he has worked a total of eleven months, spent 26 years in prison for armed robbery. Yet last week he was performing proudly at a full-time $134.80-a-week job: tightening bolts on the front suspension of Chevrolet trucks for General Motors, the world's largest manufacturer...
Such extreme styles may never attract more than a very special audience. Ever since the demise of the grey flannel suit in the early 1950s, a revolution in menswear has been forecast as regularly as the lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...
...suit the venturesome male mood, mod boutiques are proliferating in department stores, from Manhattan's Bonwit Teller and Chicago's Marshall Field to Sakowitz in Houston and Bullock's in Los Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with...