Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Graham has taken evangelism to the tailor. He wears a jaunty sky-blue gabardine, cut full to flatter his spare figure (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). Accessories: a blue and white tie and square-folded white handkerchief, thick-soled, reddish-brown shoes, a cowboy belt with a silver buckle and silver tip. ("You know," muses Billy, "when I was a kid, I used to think that preachers all wore black suits and long faces.") In his campaign posters, Billy's face is sleekly handsome; the reality seems gaunter and more impressive-deep-set, remote blue eyes, sharp...
Suits to Science. All this was what was intended by Founder John Simmons, who began life as a tailor, made a fortune out of introducing the U.S. to the ready-made suit. Probably in honor of the seamstresses he employed, Simmons left the bulk of his estate for a college that would prepare girls to earn "an independent livelihood." In 1902, in temporary quarters near Victorian Copley Square, the college opened, with courses in domestic engineering, secretarial and library work, and general science...
Attention to Detail. In Japan, Marine Lieut. James H. Orr took his old darned uniform to a tailor, asked to have another made exactly like it, returned later to find the new uniform, complete with darn...
...buttons, many stomachs would tumble out." Thus wrote a perceptive London tailor in the year 1872. Eighty years ago men wore almost twice as many buttons as they do nowadays. But buttons are coming back in quantiay; sowed on the revival of the vest...
...whole idea of the classe nouvelle, each limited to 30 students, is to tailor education to the abilities of the individual. Teachers supervise every child, hold private talks with him, then with his parents. For the first time, a full psychological dossier, carefully noting his outstanding talents and troubles, is kept on each pupil...