Word: velour
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...minutes I am wearing: $11 jeans, gold slippers, useless gold belt, childsize velour sweatshirt, and a handmade flower hair pin from the Ashby Flea Market. In 15 years I am wearing: The same $11 jeans and all my own handmade originals...
...most fitting “sign of the times” transformation, however, is Violet Beauregarde: no longer just interested in gum, Violet is a velour sweatsuited competition freak—egged on by her Soccer (or more appropriately Baton-Twirling) Mom, played deliciously, in matching attire, by Missy Pyle...
What’s on your holiday wish list? I bought myself an early Christmas gift: a Paul Smith eggplant velour jacket at Neiman’s. It doesn’t match anything, but it’s awesome...
...with excellent duds: if you didn’t know Andrew J. Serke ’05 was on Team Seersucker, his pants would certainly tip you off, and when Daniel H. Rothenberg ’05 is playing with his usual partner, they rock matching pairs of velour pants...
...walls bear snapshots of movie stars visiting the place, among them Johnny Depp (Donnie Brasco), Hugh Grant (Mickey Blue Eyes) and James Caan (The Godfather). At a round table sit five men--sturdy, with slick hair and crumpled suits--having a good rude time as two other men in velour sweatsuits, drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above the men are two metal boxes with rubber knobs--devices believed to have been installed...