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...tweed-suited member of the better-paid classes what's gone wrong, and you'll get a lot of chin stroking about vast, impersonal forces such as declining productivity and global competition. But real wages fell faster in the '80s than in the '70s, while productivity rose faster in the '80s. Besides, executive salaries have soared in the past 10 years, and it's the executives who decide whether to invest in junk bonds or modern equipment and technology. Theories of the global economy may explain a lot of things, but they don't make it any easier...
...Lagerfeld's romance with the fabric is a weapon in his war against what he calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...
Dershowitz eventually landed a teaching job at Harvard Law School. There, gratitude was not his long suit. Neither was tweed. He recalls his fellow Jews on the faculty: they didn't " 'dress British and think Yiddish.' They thought British too. Their Anglophilia . . . affected their mannerisms, their attitudes, their style of speech, their choice of metaphors, even their jokes." None of this for Dershowitz, then or now. His attire, jokes and attitude proclaim him as the peddler's militant grandson: out for social justice and civil rights, and along the way maybe a little advertising wouldn't hurt...
William "Boss" Tweed was horrified by Nast's acrid portrayals of him: "I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles. My constituents don't know how to read. But they can't help seeing them damned pictures." Nast followed the commandment that a cartoon should be a mirror in which readers can recognize salient ideas with relevance to their own lives...
...play clothes, in evening and weekend varieties. If women are not tending children at home, the clothes for work outnumber all the rest. So why is it that most designers of any fame produce garments intended for some weird fantasy life? I'm looking at a crotch-length strapless tweed dress topped by a blazer. Even in the permissive world of journalism, where am I going to wear this number? To interview the Secretary of State? I understand fashion's need for the new, but it gets less and less possible to find something modish I can actually wear...