Word: trousering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...
...Michael Anderson fails shabbily. An instance is the simple and necessary business of withholding information. When Hitchcock wants to hide the face of a stalking murderer from the camera, he invents some reason-perhaps a half-drawn shade in a rear window. Anderson merely points his lens toward anonymous trouser legs and fires away. No matter how hard the cellists play, this is cheating...
When Wyndham Lewis' girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...
...controversy started when the Duke of Windsor confided that while he still gets his jackets in London, he now gets his trousers at Harris in New York. Agreed British Couturier Digby Morton: "British trousers look nappy. They are too full, too big all over. Pants are to a man what a brassière is to a woman. They give the figure a line." And in Manhattan a Brooks Brothers executive agreed that "Savile Row has now taken second place to Italy" with its drainpipe trouser effect...
...fashion designer, and it's very noticeable in his pants. We have never admired the American seat." Said another: "We can't vouch for the Windsors." At Henry Poole & Co., oldest of the fashionable Savile Row establishments, a cutter learnedly expounded the theory of the ample trouser leg: "The full thigh acts as a hinge, enabling a man to lift his leg without banging his knee on the front of his trousers...