Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Anyway, I got ready for my date. I wore that new flannel shirt and fished through the drawer for the clean pair of socks I keep for just such occasions. I even did my Frank Burns imitation and checked for nose hairs in the mirror. I left nothing to chance...
...woods. They rise in the dark at 3 or 4 in the morning, pull up their suspenders and adjust rough hide pads on their left shoulders. The pads cradle the saws and, like trivets, shield the men from the hot blades that would burn their flesh through their flannel shirts. Their pants legs are tattered so that if they are suddenly snagged, the material will tear rather than hold. They do not wear steel-tipped shoes for fear that if a massive limb falls on their feet, it may turn the metal down and sever their toes. Better that their...
...cable knits, wools and especially in velvet. Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, French fans of tights, are emphasizing the leg. So is the hot young American designer, Isaac Mizrahi, who dismisses the '80s as a time of "boring, rote, dress-for-success looks with stock-tie blouses, flannel jackets and henny-looking long, drab skirts...
...inherently insecure, more smug and selfish. Much of her evidence involves incidental, sometimes lighthearted perceptions about how this uneasiness reveals itself. To escape association with a shrinking middle class, yuppies have learned to choose the baby bass en croute over the chef's salad, Italian knit sweaters over flannel shirts, running over basketball and handcrafted cabinets over mass-produced maple...
When U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jay Stephens finally bagged Mayor Marion Barry, he did not sink back into a gray-flannel cocoon of "no comment." Once an anonymous deputy counsel in the Reagan White House whose only attempt at flash was his vanity license plate WH LAW, Stephens is now a rising Republican star. After numerous press interviews about Barry's arrest, he took to the Sunday TV circuit to explain why his sting operation was a triumph...