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...even when P.G. Wodehouse wrote about it 75 years ago. So what? I can live in the past in someone else's country. I'm not ashamed to say that when men in London began to realize some years ago that they actually didn't have to wear heavy wool suits in August, I was critical of their willingness to cast aside standards of proper dress. After all, I hadn't been the one doing the sweating...
...They tried to sell us this project, and people saw the wool was being pulled over their eyes," Moseley said...
...snow on the ground and the chilly air blowing through Cambridge heralds the changing of the season. It's winter, hon, and that makes all the difference. Even style gurus like Dr. Know experience a little anxiety when it becomes time to whip out the wool, pull on the parka and flex that fleece. Fear not, Yucky dear, Dr. Know will plow you a path towards sharp winter style...
...wool sweaters safe in the Dunster squash courts were a distant memory as I posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...
...Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike summer heat and humidity wearing dark wool suits and damp white shirts, their air supply constricted by a tight Windsor knot...