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Frugable Charm. West Coast coeds like "the Scramble Look" best for day -a style that depends upon the combination of as many patterns as possible in a single outfit; the girl who can manage a skillful blend of dots with stripes, checks with tweeds, and plaids with prints, plus patterned stockings, may seem something of an eyesore off campus, but no matter-around the quad she's the sweetheart of Sigma Chi. For night, U.C.L.A. students slip into something appropriate to "the Discothèque Look"-sleeveless jumpers made sometimes of tweed but more often of velours, bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Back to School | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...color of a slightly soiled orangutan, and over the large smile arches an orange mustache such as a man might hang his hat on. The hat, set over at a country angle, is Tyrolean and supports a bright little brush that stands eternally erect. The jacket is tweed and reeks of Irish fog and Irish twist and good green Irish whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mick Micawber | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...shop on Mass. Ave., the new Holyoke Center store includes a woman's section which is both inexpensive and adequate. The round-collared print blouses with solid colored skirts and checked blouse and bermuda out-fits will have you looking like a Smithie in no time flat. The VERMONT TWEED and OXFORD SHOP (on Brattle St.) specializes in a more expensive version of the same look...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Experts Say: "Plus la change; plus la meme chose" | 4/8/1964 | See Source »

...Sunday, Cheever's small figure may be seen tramping on the back roads around Croton Dam trailed by his two Labradors. His lined, nut-brown face, like that of so many Americans of the middle class, is that of an aging schoolboy, and his clothes that schoolboy uniform-tweed jacket, khaki drill pants and scuffed loafers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...tweed, gin, and torn commuter tickets in the stuff of John Cheever's fiction, his stories carry the ancient authority of a faith that good and evil are not merely words, that grace rewards with joy on earth those who obey the gods, and that a Miltonic "chaos and old night" full of vengeful demons awaits the defiant and unruly. He has a long view in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE METAMORPHOSES OF JOHN CHEEVER | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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