Word: wearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...
...would be wrong to say that the tie is useless or pointless. Dress is language. The tie has many meanings, many symbolic and psychological uses. It is an inverted exclamation mark hanging from the throat. It subtly directs attention away from the wearer's physicality. Worn with full business suit, it can be a form of armoring, a defense and an assertion of power. It can also be a gesture of compliance. White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, tieless and amiably scruffy for years, has started dressing (almost contritely) in suit and tie in the wake of stories about...
...Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent-shaped bowtie worn with a choker collar so high and stiff that the wearer could neither see to the side nor turn his head. This year, fashion designers have ordained that, along with lapels, the thing must shrink again to '50s proportions (about three inches at the widest place...
...least, the newly revived turn-of-the-century collarless shirt, without the celluloid attachable collar, has possibilities. It is neat and extraordinarily comfortable. If only the collarless shirt did not reek so disagreeably of a sort of Bloomingdale's chic, which has the effect of somehow trivializing the wearer. For years Filipino men have managed to be both elegant and comfortable in the barong tagalog, the embroidered shirt that is a kind of national costume. The caftan might not pass as suitable business attire, and the clergyman's Roman collar can bite the neck. But among the tunics...
...adherents insist that the clothes they wear be made of natural fibers-cotton, linen, silk-and that they look natural: unstructured, unlined, unstarched, unpressed. Their aim is to look carefree not careless, modish not messy, though the distinction may at times be more in the eye of the wearer than the beholder. "This year," says a buyer at Chicago's I. Magnin, "wrinkled is rich...