Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very names evoke the lore and challenge of a classic individual sport: the Dee, the Tay, the Tweed. These famous fishing rivers of Scotland attract some 50,000 anglers a year, most of them lured by hopes of hooking the combative, and tasty, Atlantic salmon...
...diva who now runs the New York City Opera: "There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom." Playboy magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year, Shannon Tweed, is about the same height and weight as Mariel Hemingway, but her contours are different ? in the soft lines and curves that her beau, Publisher Hugh Hefner, finds so attractive. She will not try to change: "I think you can get too muscular. I'm not the jealous type...
...thought of paying $22.50 for a book your professor wrote 15 years ago and still requires for his course. "Cripes," you will mutter, imagining the seedy old codger shuffling into the store that evening and emptying the day's receipts into the pockets of his coffee-stained tweed blazer...
...popular success of Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited have, meanwhile, provided impetus for Lauren, 42, to turn back to his beginnings. Many of this fall's clothes for men and women will feature a British accent, with lots of strict tailoring: heathery tweeds for men, an elongated Norfolk jacket for women worn with a contrasting tweed skirt. Fabrics immaculate, tailoring impeccable: the best off-the-rack American stuff that comes to hand. Wearing Ralph Lauren is not exactly like falling into Jay Gatsby's closet; it is more like joining one of John O'Hara...
...Pinky, who was recently in Milan showing off a collection at a small hotel whose proprietor clears the entire premises when the two women move in. Their new line for fall features short skirts, knitted sweater dresses with hefty shoulders tapering down to a mid-thigh hemline, and Irish tweed overcoats that look like a Black and Tan fantasy. "We still do avant-garde clothes," Pinky says, "avantgarde and expensive, but we use lots of discipline in the men's things." Examples: silk shirts with small collars, suede as lively as dyed denim and a baseball jacket made...