Word: formalwear
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...first annual beauty pageant, held by the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association, sought to determine "Harvard's most attractive boys of the Asian persuasion." The winner—Christopher A.T. Van '12—trumped the others in the talent, formalwear, and swimsuit categories, winning a free haircut and the honor of representing Harvard at Wellesley's Mr. ASU Pageant...
...Gist: Any man who boasts a troika of girlfriends five decades his junior, pops Viagra like Pez and considers smoking jackets formalwear is bound to be divisive. But whether you consider Hugh Hefner a smut-peddler or a "prophet of pop hedonism"-TIME's phrasing in 1967-you can't deny the guy his place in the American canon. And in Mr. Playboy, biographer Steven Watts argues that Hef's influence extends well beyond the bedroom. By framing sex as an All-American aspiration-as worthy a pursuit as good wine or flashy cars-the famous free-love evangelist scrambled...
Drexler's talent is fed by his near obsessive information intake. "He watches everything," says analyst Jennifer Black of Jennifer Black & Associates, which is how a single comment from a call-center operator about bridesmaids buying cotton dresses launched a line of formalwear that now includes $3,000 wedding gowns...
...fifth category of Junior Miss is poise. This entails walking around with genteel grace and softly swinging hands, part of the program in an evening gown. I’m sure there are plenty of beauty queens who just adore perusing bridal shops and formalwear stores. I’m not one of them. Shopping for a dress was pure hell. If there’s a gown in the Maryland-Virginia-Delaware area, you can bet my poor body got zipped into it. Yellow washed me out. Orange clashed with my hair color. Red makes you look fat onstage...
...Dyke Ball, costume is required and “creative black tie” is recommended. In practice, that means everything from lingerie to formalwear, leather to feathers, high femme to butch drag. This year, one Wellesley student wore a satin “vagina” on her chest and asked drag emcee Jay Franklin to touch it. (Franklin, perhaps too much of a gentleman, declined...