Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy worsteds and woolens that once made the perspiring milord a laughingstock at Mediterranean watering places, the new look employs mostly lightweight (11 oz. to 14 oz.) fabrics, including polyester and cotton blends. Most of the suits can be brightened up or toned down with stylish waistcoats. Customer and tailor are free to interpret the line as they see fit, choosing from a range of some 4,000 fabrics and endless color permutations...
Many people don't realize what they're doing here until they leave; some people never realize at all. A lucky few have a concrete conception of their purpose and tailor their four years in Cambridge to fit it. But somehow almost everyone learns how to cope...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carre...
...culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage may have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing seemed to have meant more to this tailor's son on the make than his sumptuous wardrobe - at a time when 36 bushels of coal cost ?3 he spent up to ?55 a month on silk suits and cloaks with gold buttons...