Word: denim
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When Huck Finn put on his patched, faded blue denim overalls to go catfishing on the Mississippi, he never dreamed that he was anticipating a fashion trend for 1953. But last week, in shops and stores across the land, no cloth was selling faster, or in more colorful varieties, than once drab, once humble denim. For the U.S. textile industry, it is the Cinderella cloth that became queen of the ball...
...course, for pure comfort, the bathing suit and a broad expanse of ocean will never be superceded. For a more practical substitute, bermuda shorts--for male or female--will always do. They come in cool materials like denim or cotton khaki...
...present, however, we must consider what is presently correct. In the Spring, seersucker and cord jackets are both practical and eminently proper. Of late, the inexpensive blue denim jackets have become quite popular. There are also sober tan or grey gabardine suits, and for more formal occasions or chilly evenings, the ever-dependable grey flannel is unspeakably proper...
...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
...clock one evening last week, a dignified, white-haired man, his lawyer at his side, walked into Los Angeles' towering county jail building and surrendered on his bond. At the booking desk he emptied his pockets, received an ill-fitting blue denim uniform to replace his elegant double-breasted grey flannel suit. Soon, reported a turnkey, No. 22487 was "sleeping like a baby" in the upper bunk of cell 10A2 on the twelfth floor. Hollywood Producer Walter (Stagecoach) Wanger, 57, a suave man with "no previous arrests," had begun what he called his "summer vacation...