Word: tweeds
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...strands that run through his daytime wear, the dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples...
...find national-brand merchandise as well as labels bearing the names of celebrities. In the jeans department, Levi's can be found next to Sears' familiar Tough-skins. The men's departments have an Arnie line, named for Golfer Arnold Palmer, which includes $95 tweed sports jackets, and will soon carry Johnny Carson suits. Women can find garments bearing the labels of Model Cheryl Tiegs and Tennis Player Evonne Goolagong. Adding fashion to its fundamentals has been a surprising hit. The Tiegs line has generated an estimated $200 million in sales during its first 15 months...
...tumbled, half ran past the Crimson 'H' sweaters, the Vuarnaise sunglasses, the tweed jackets, the finished Bloody Marys. Every innocent, smiling, yammering face was evil, responsible for this idiocy, a part of this mass subjgation of reason, this mass return to the cradle for otherwise rational Blue and Crimson graduates...
...years after the Saturday Night Massacre, Cox is still the familiar, almost folksy figure who wouldn't compromise with the devil. He sits somewhere among the folds of an enveloping tweed jacket, with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with the two-term President, in a dusty, book-lined office in a corner of Langdell Library. If Harvard academics could design a hero of their-own, who met the real world and won, surely he would look like Archibald...
...should be, in a friendly unpretentious spot somewhere between adolescence and manhood. It's a gangly film, awkward in spots but lovable overall. Perhaps its greatest flaw is that it tries too hard to be loved--and while it does escape looking canned there are a few too many tweed jackets and Shetland sweaters. One might wonder if there ever was, or will be, a prep school quite so preppie as Vernon Academy...