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...evening dress, or taken off entirely to make a bathing suit. Among the more popular items (according to spectator ballots and a poll of designers present) were dresses and coats with foot-square monograms on the back. Not so popular were nine outfits for men, including a purple suede topcoat with shoes and hatband to match...
Chicago had a war. It was a commercial war, waged with Tommy guns, grenades, sawed-off shotguns, pistols, and speeding automobiles. Its soldiers wore a unique uniform-black velvet-collared topcoat and pearl-grey hat. It was a war which enriched the language, inspired a dozen books, plays and motion pictures, and damned the Volstead...
...stuck to his bedroom for much of the journey. But the President was on the rear platform at almost every stop, offering his hand to anyone who could reach it. At St. Louis, on the return trip, he appeared on the platform with his striped pajamas showing under the topcoat he had thrown over his shoulders...
...Outfitted in a fly-front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Trovers Harris (ret.), former head of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, arrived in Manhattan, with fetchingly beautiful Lady Harris and small daughter, to visit friends ("fast, furiously, and well"), get one more decoration in Washington, and then move on to retirement in South Africa. Frayed tweed topcoat, mangled green felt hat, shocking-pink mustache...