Word: tweed
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Ever since that whole “meritocracy” thing happened, true-blueblood Ivy Leaguers have had to use sartorial means to identify one another in a crowd. You know the drill: Brooks Brothers oxford button-down, ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last...
GENEVA Conservative Swiss women are rushing to Celine on the Rue du Rhone to check out the black-and-white tweed Ella ($1,210), inspired by style icons like Audrey Hepburn...
...spokeswoman for jewelry company Harry Winston. "You see so much heavy-duty cashmere and fur in the stores. It hasn't been like this since the 1980s." Indeed, the fall collections are among the most extravagant in recent history, with fur trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases in the second quarter...
...call it the bye-bye-to-Britney look," says Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley, referring to the scantily clad pop princess Britney Spears. In its back-to-school issue, the magazine showcased (gasp!) high-waisted jeans, kilts and tweed blazers. Seventeen advised readers to opt for below-the-knee skirts and higher-waisted pants. The look is in full force in stores, with Old Navy pushing Argyle tube tops and ballet flats and H&M stocked with modest blouses that Paris Hilton wouldn't be caught dead in. Even perennially preppy retailers like J. Crew are taking...
...justifiable excuse. No individual possessing even an ounce of humanity would execute such orders. But the American soldiers did. Bush would have us believe that those troops do not represent American values. Yet they do show a moral black hole in the American psyche. Oke G. Pamp Tweed, Canada...