Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with, the clubs encouraged obnoxious behavior. During cocktails, a club member suggested that I meet as many members as possible. Semicircles of candidates soon formed around each wearer of an official Club tie. Too much laughter followed stupid jokes. Too much respect greeted inane comments. Too much brown nosing...
...Russian-Jewish immigrants who raised poultry on a small Rhode Island farm. In one of many psychobiographical pole vaults, Herrmann says, "As soon as he could afford it, he began buying only the most expensive custom-made English clothes. They were so beautifully tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...
...design point of view, is more intense," Kawakubo says. "It's the first presentation of my new work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination of the wearer. "It may sound a bit harsh," says Yohji Yamamoto, "but Europe's snobbishness is equal to America's conservatism. To people living in a conservative world, new fashions, new trends and new designs are like something you see in the theater: you clap, but you never live what...
...necessity of dressing the ladies of the French court, who were obliged always to appear in white and never to wear the same toilette twice. Worth even felt a heavy obligation to the French silkmaking industry. When crinolines became so enormous as to be dangerous to the wearer, Worth concocted the bustle as a way to use quantities of fabric without incarcerating his clients...
...ways, each with its own social connotation. The knots at the waist of a courtesan's skirt could be so intricate that only she could undo them: fashion as a fail-safe device. A contemporary turban, worn by an ironmonger, shows in its coloration and style of wrapping the wearer's occupation, his residence and his marital status: fashion as calling card...