Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once wet, the uniform takes an excessive time to dry. The sleeves are too narrow to roll up easily, the collar too wide and the pants pockets hard to reach. Seams unravel, buttons fall off. The trousers come with a reinforced crotch that strengthens the garment but constricts its wearer. After a few washings, the fabric shrinks, its colors fading to a mottled purple...
...call for socialism to wipe out the inequalities of capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant leftist theories threatened...
...owner and wearer of more than 40 different hats, I enjoyed your Essay "In Praise of Serious Hats" [April 25]. I have a special reason for using one. Years ago my doctor recommended that I wear a hat to reduce sinus trouble because heat rises and keeps your head warm...
...does have psychological power. A man places the thing just on top of his brain, and the one takes emanations from the other. The ancient Egyptians would go to parties in an ornamental cone of perfumed wax. The wax would melt down onto the wearer as the party heated up. The hat responded to the brain's temperature. A hat can be revealing, intimate. It can also be dangerous: no other article of clothing has the potential to make a man look so ridiculous. There is the terror of the whisper: Why does he wear that silly little...
...band of teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...