Word: waistcoats
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...tuxedo never went out." A century ago, however, the tuxedo almost got kicked out of Gilpatric's set. Griswold Lorillard -- scion, as social columnists would put it, of the tobacco Lorillards -- showed up in the rarefied regions of the country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells was the inescapable fact that Griswold's tails did not have any. The tailcoat was cut even and short, like a suit jacket. Scion or not, Griswold almost got the bounce, until...
...required to surrender every weekend, but when he is played by Ken Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool with blue lapels and velvet cuffs studded with 20 14-karat buttons, a white wig and cocked bicorne hat, and a $15,000 18th century sword, inlaid with gold. "I come off as a totally arrogant, pompous...
...London last week to witness the debut of his life-size look-alike. The wax Jackson, for which the singer posed last November, has an electric bulb twinkling in its right eye, the jeweled glove on the outstretched right hand is studded with tiny strobes, and the silver waistcoat also lights up. After a close inspection, the sleek and shiny original pronounced his nondancing double to be "excellent, really good." Then Jackson went outside and, to the roaring approval of several thousand waiting, sometimes fainting fans, jumped on the top of his limousine, pirouetted and blew kisses to the crowd...
...most of the author's large cast of characters are happily categorized. Chronicler Evelyn Waugh offers seedlings of his farces: "Alastair . . . at some stage in the evening lost my waistcoat. Audrey made declarations of love to me, and Richard to Elizabeth and I to Olivia. I do not think Black Torry seduced anyone." When Winston Churchill's son is operated on for a benign tumor, Waugh decides, "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove...
...share of laughs. The picture of the impeccable Jeeves devolving into Wooster or a starched headmistress is, in itself, enough to supply a right humorous air to the scene. The second act is more of this good stuff: a friendly poke at beastly aunts, a discourse on the proper waistcoat, and a drunken tirade shouted by a lovesick newt-fancier at a public school awards ceremony. The whole thing comes to a good old-fashioned musical finish with a bit of tap-dance and "Sonny...