Word: trouserings
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...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...
...saloon and make himself colonel. Private Post picked the 71st Infantry, a regiment heavily manned with flask-toting, city-bred New Yorkers. No one needed to be caught alive or dead in olive drab; the uniform was a brilliant cerulean blue with a flashy stripe down the trouser leg. The training grounds were the fields of Hempstead, Long Island. The close-order drill came from Gettysburg and Waterloo, and the chow seemed almost as old. Writes Post...
...evening and cocktail dresses, have used fur trim lavishly. The dressier clothes cost more, promising retailers both higher unit and dollar volume. Fur Pants. Another place where the luxury look shows up is in the rising popularity of elegant casual costumes. Many top fashion houses are showing jacket-and-trouser sets to be worn to cheer the tired executive after a hard day at the office. Variations range from Fredrica Furs' $1,195 nutria car coat with pants of hamster fur (retail price of pants: $195) to Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants...
...hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon and rips the log-riding diplomats asunder with a mixed charge of "beer bottle tops, discarded trouser buttons, cigarette-tins and fragments of discarded railway train...