Word: houndstooth
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Across the hall, in the quiet Harvard locker room, Frank McLaughlin, looking sharp in a houndstooth blazer, is encouraging prospective freshmen, selling then on the merits of Harvard--the school and the future basketball power...
...with a 10-ft. by 19-ft. cascade of multicolored awning stripes. Ellsworth Kelly does three giant, economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags-all in a canvas measuring 7 ft. by 28 ft. Alex Katz deftly pinpoints a life-size Lawn Party, in a realistically painted 9-ft. by 12-ft. canvas populated by all his friends and neighbors down in Maine...
...slacks or, better still, skirts. Back in the swing, after a decade of use only by Boy Scouts and photographers, is the shoulder-strap bag. "Jiffy" coats-halfway between a coat and a jacket in length -are as popular as Beatles; favorite fabrics are stretchable wools, hottest pattern is houndstooth checks. "The coffee-shop look is out," says a Philadelphia fashion coordinator. "It's been replaced by the clean look." Boston and New York, headquarters for Ivy League shoppers, agree. Charles Stanwood, divisional merchandise manager of New England's mammoth Jordan Marsh, claims campus fashions are moving toward...
...week was an absolute minimum for the well-dressed man; in fact, added the statement from the trade paper Tailor and Cutter, eight was better than seven-to break the dreadful monotony of turning up each Monday in the same old tweed and each Thursday in the houndstooth check...