Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sure, there are thousands of them guarding his opera his opera house," he said, "but when we need a policeman, they're just not around. You know,I went down to his opera house last year just to see the way those people still dress, I hadn't been to one since the twenties. By accident, I got in, and when I got home, I felt so fancy that I didn't even talk to my wife. Now, none of those people have to worry about law and order...
...take a vacation from their usual jobs in order to be present for the social festivities of the count. But others come for another simple reason: the $12 a day the job pays. "I need the money, What else can I say?" comments a sixtyish lady in a flowered dress...
...young man, Dennis, sits on the front porch in a floorlength white robe, with blond hair flowing past his shoulders. "Why are you wearing a dress?" I ask. "I'm a witch," he answers. "In fact, you're just in time to see one of my ceremonies. Come on upstairs." I follow. "Don't worry, I'm not a black witch, I'm a white witch. Most of us are. Our powers diminish when we use them selfishly." We come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people?housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle...
According to James Laver, the British historian of women's fashions, the same dress will be "indecent" if worn ten years before its time, and "daring" if worn a year before, "smart" the year of its coming of age, and "hideous" ten years after. But it will become "amusing" 30 years after its vintage year, and ultimately it may become "romantic" or even "beautiful." The same sort of pattern, Laver maintains, can be traced in interior decoration and design. He may be right...
Gabriel and the Rams have come a long way since then. This year they were undefeated as they approached midseason; quite possibly, their late-November home-turf confrontation with Dallas' potent Cowboys will be a dress rehearsal for the N.F.L. title game...