Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example. A few weeks ago, we noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window, and we breathed a sigh of relief, still clinging to our recently threatened three-buttoned job. But when, scarcely a week ago, we noticed the self-same jacket draped--or rather, compressed--around the shoulders of a friend of ours, our anxiety was trebly renewed...
Slim but gentle is the order of the day in the city. A smooth jacket, buttoned short of the waist, and giving a pleasant high-waisted look. Wool complimented with sealskin and just plain tweed are busy above and underground--the murmur of the city is the murmur of slenderness and simplicity. Coats are short...
...square with the addition of the cinch, which allows her to belt in any combination of skirt and top, often with telling effect. Sweaters--which fit, this year--are often particularly startling, and the girl, her waist defined by the unyielding cinch, can now wear them with a full tweed or flannel skit without looking like a teddy bear. Hips and terse length permitting, she can also belt together a sweater and straight skirt, but this requires discretion and a rear-view mirror...
...Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His Scoundrelism...
Materials whose functions in the past were considered limited to sportswear have earned legitimate use for dancing and cocktail apparel. Wardrobes that have included tweed dressy outfits will now add denims for party going...