Word: tweeds
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...accustomed to taking my 5 o’clock scotch in the company of other well-mannered gentlemen, blanch at the notion of hooligans loitering among us. They threaten our quietude, with their newfangled dungarees and brimmed caps turned askew, and not so much as a single article of tweed! They scream along to their wild rock-and-roll music—all fans of those British, mop-headed Insects, or Beetles, or whatnot—and exhibit all manner of inappropriate merriment...
British interior designer Ilse Crawford has a knack for dusting off traditional English style without succumbing to clich. For the Olde Bell, a newly refurbished inn in the English village of Hurley, in Berkshire, she combined classic materials like tweed, oak and felt with sleeker touches like Bestlite bedside lamps and modern dining chairs. Guests will find discreet luxuries such as Aesop bath products, retro-style Roberts radios and Windsor rocking chairs. But the real focus at the Olde Bell is the common spaces. "It's all based around the table," says Crawford of the inn's public rooms...
...series of deals that will reportedly swell her sons' inheritance by ?1 million to ?1.5 million ($1.4 million to $2.1 million, roughly). These include a televised interview with America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan and extensive coverage in OK! magazine of her wedding to her boyfriend Jack Tweed, recently released from prison, where he was serving a term for assault. "It's weird, but it's like a film - I'm happy, but then I'm sad, obviously," Tweed said of his forthcoming nuptials...
...Harris tweed jacket looks like a Harris tweed jacket,” White said...
...certain age in their advertising, like Sharon Stone for Dior, for example, the photos are so retouched. There is really nothing in the magazines that I can identify with. I saw one photo in American Vogue of a model working, but she was wearing a twin-set and a tweed skirt, like in the 1950s. (See pictures of Paris fashion...