Word: button-down
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...youth and the 70% of Italian workers who are nonunionized. The party has issued a doctrinaire platform calling for "authority with liberty," a strong presidential form of government, curbs on strikes, and worker representation in management. More important, Almirante is shrewdly changing MSI's image from blackshirt to button-down...
...light in the crowded Lions Club in old Key West. The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died. The speaker was a stumpy, smoothfaced man who was as far away from his home in Everett, Wash., as he could be. His Adlai Stevenson-era button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer to your thinking than all of the other candidates. I'm the different candidate." The sponge fishermen, tradesmen, retired...
Remember the button-down shirt...
...going out, moderate is moving in, and the button-down is back. Says Danny Zarem, vice president and fashion director at Manhattan's Bonwit Teller: "Men have gotten the peacockery out of their systems. They feel it's now time to return to good taste...
...button-downer boasts longer, narrower collar points, is cut more slimly and patterned more vividly than the old standbys. The new shirt is designed, in fact, to go with the fashionably tailored men's suits of recent vintage. But no one expects the button-down to become the cliche that it was in the '50s. Says Designer Bill Blass, who is among the pioneers of the button-down this time around: "I don't want men to wear only button-down shirts. It's just part of the whole fashion picture...