Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boutique or a Carnaby shop. No transistor is immune from rock 'n' roll, no highway spared the stutter of Hondas. There are few Main Streets in the world that do not echo to the clop of granny boots, and many are the grannies who now wear them. What started out as distinctively youthful sartorial revolt-drainpipe-trousered men, pants-suited or net-stockinged women, long hair on male and female alike-has been accepted by adults the world over...
Among the menagerie of men's organizations, the Elks, Eagles and Moose may have the edge in membership, but when it comes to elegance, manners and good breeding, none can outclass the Metropolitan Opera Club. Nicknamed "The Penguins," because its members wear white tie and tails, the club is the last vestige of the courtly pomp and pageantry that once attended grand opera. Last week members sipped champagne and dined beneath crystal chandeliers in their sumptuous clubroom in the new Met, then adjourned to their two tiers of box seats to hear Die Meistersinger. It is a weekly ritual...
Gone, too, is the tradition of wearing top hats in the clubroom and during performances; many members nowadays think it is too pretentious. Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble. Nor do members wear opera capes; too many wise guys shout "Batman!" or "Phantom of the Opera...
...Kilgour, French & Stanbury. "I tell them if they want a sack suit they should go to Brooks Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces to 20 ounces per running yard; San Franciscans choose almost English weights, but otherwise, says Stanbury, "we can't sell anything over twelve ounces...
...five, Colorado five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods. But it's also a good idea to wear a helmet...