Word: wool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daily commented on the times with regular fashion features. A fall 1955 caption describes a photo of an attractive woman snoozing through a Sever Hall class: "If a girl intends to sleep during and after a lecture, she will look and feel more comfortable in this twin sweater with wool skirt... Contrast is recommended for government courses, harmony for social relations...
...Evangeline Gouletas, 44, the widowed Chicago condominium millionaire he met at the Reagan Inaugural. The romance has worked quite a change on the fast-living politician. Why, his silver-gray locks and eyebrows have gone a rakish shade of auburn. "This is budget season," says the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding was in the works. "A slip of the lip can sink...
...play. There is hardly a skirt in the show. The emphasis is on pants: quilted, pleated, tucked and cuffed bermudas, knee-length culottes with upward-curving hems, knickers and quilted pantskirts. They are worn in daytime with silk or satin blouses, strictly tailored jackets, capes and large T-shaped wool ponchos. Many of Armani's favorite colors-shades of beige, brown, rust, taupe, gray, black, traces of cobalt blue-are subtly combined in a single ensemble. Favorite materials for pants and jackets are houndstooth checks, herringbone tweeds, velvet, flannel and, for evening, stiff satin. At night the baroque steps...
...fringes of radical politics, he was questioned by the FBI when it was suspected that one of his friends had harbored Patty Hearst during her days as a fugitive. Introspective and reclusive in a world of exhibitionists, Walton was a vegetarian who preferred a lumberjack's wool shirts to superfly fur coats...
Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...