Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone knows about Adam and Eve. Poets have told the story in rhyme, sculptors in stone. It has been dramatized, analyzed, synthesized and choreographed. But Genesis is hardly chic, and the fashion industry found Women's Wear Daily a more inspiring Bible. Until this month anyway, when Harper's Bazaar had its newest contributing editor take a look at the book. Gloria Guinness is the wife of a British banking tycoon, No. 2 on the Best-Dressed List, and has the sort of detachment that comes from being a woman who does not care what it costs...
What about the dowdies? Those senseless frumps who haven't the instinct, or cash, to wear the right clothes? Mrs. Guinness advises a career for which a uniform is required. "A religious order would be infinitely the best choice." The woman who is not wild about convents can always settle down and start breeding. No one cares what she's wearing then. Even Mrs. Guinness admits that: "Fortunately, we do not have to have our clothes on when busy multiplying ourselves...
...first, the only girls who succumbed were ones with long, straight hair, soulful looks and knee-length boots. They generally favored long, dangling spike earrings which looked like nails hanging from their ears. But the fever began to infect others, who carry green bookbags, look earnest, and wear sensible shoes. These girls like small earrings which fit like cufflinks in the center of the lobe. As yet the illness has not struck girls who wear cashmere sweaters and stockings to class and only date members of the Porcellian Club, but their immunity will probably not last long...
When a man buys a suit of clothes, he also buys self-respect. And if you think that a $50 suit looks like a $250 suit, then either you have poor eyesight or you wear $50 suits...
...Swarthmore is a passionate intellectual jousting that makes seminars crackle. When a professor recently remarked, "Rousseau doesn't make the distinctions Hume does," a typical coed fiercely whispered, "Damn right!" Although half the students are on intercollegiate athletic teams, Swarthmore is a school where varsity-lettermen refuse to wear varsity letters. An alumnus proudly recalls four years of debating with a philosophy professor on ontological proof, "with each of us reversing his position at least twice...