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Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...horrendous triple-bogey 8 on the 625-yd. 16th on the third day, finished with a six-over-par 286, retired to the sidelines as a TV commentator. Snead cashed out with bogeys on the last two holes. But for graceful Jay Hebert, the grueling Firestone course was tailor-made...
...article in the May 30 edition on Hong Kong: please explode the myth that any tailor in Hong Kong can get out a well-made garment for $25 or less in 24 hours. Of course, there are those who will do it, but the majority here prefer more time, charge more, and produce, consequently, better quality goods. Having lived here for over a year I cannot praise the place enough, but as for the bargains, and there are plenty, real quality is never dirt cheap...
...year in a complicated affair involving the shakedown of a businessman by a brace of phony policemen. In jail, Sorlut soon began singing, gave the police a score of names of prominent Parisians to whom he had supplied young girls-politicians, manufacturers, department-store directors, a hairdresser, a fashionable tailor, an art curator, a restaurateur, a countess...
Oddly enough, Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...