Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice versa-has inspired two great publishing projects, on Boswell and WaLpole. The Boswell "factory," as it is sometimes called, is essentially manned by one scholar, retired English Professor Frederick Pottle, 79 (who has, however, a staff of four helpers). A stooped, sprightly man given to suspenders and tweed jackets, Pottle pursues his life's work in a dusty room in the main Sterling Library, cluttered with index cards, legal pads and old pharmacy lamps. He started in 1924 with a doctoral bibliography on Boswell, then went to do research work at the Long Island estate of wealthy Collector...
...best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent of a mink coat...
Several well-known designers have climbed aboard the hayride, turning out country-look garb at double and triple the prices of the catalogue merchandise. Ralph Lauren, 37, has made the rough-hewn look the backbone of his collection. His Harris tweed hacking jacket is a highly styled-and highly priced ($256)-version of a riding jacket sold for $79.50 by the equestrian outfitter, Miller's of New York. Louis Vuitton has whipped up a knapsack ($275) blanketed with the familiar L.V.s. Patti Cappalli, 37, has turned out a little mink-lined lumber jacket ($450) and Alice Elaine...
Sure I'm being a little hard on the jocks in the tweed jackets and LaCoste shirts, for though the multiflex can resemble a monkey-flex at times (with Bonzo the Chimp running post patterns), there is a horde of talented gridders playing Saturday's heroes for all eight Ivy teams providing all the grunts, second efforts and crack-back blocks that the Big Ten, Big Eight, or Big Sadist football fan craves...
...going to be ready," Restic said yesterday before departing for the land of tweed and khakis "We know that we can get better, and we will get better...