Word: velour
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...that year that I routinely got bloody noses at inopportune times and started to sport a white eye-patch, which clipped on to my glasses. I was legally blind in one eye—that was my only excuse for why I also wore leggings with giant, purple, velour sweatshirts. I looked like an extremely undersized, genetically-deformed version of Deborah Gibson. I can almost never forgive myself. That’s why, approximately two weeks ago, when everyone and their mother started to wear leggings, I started to get panic attacks. I couldn’t believe that people...
...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...