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Chanel would not have defined herself as a feminist--in fact, she consistently spoke of femininity rather than of feminism--yet her work is unquestionably part of the liberation of women. She threw out a life jacket, as it were, to women not once but twice, during two distinct periods decades apart: the 1920s and the '50s. She not only appropriated styles, fabrics and articles of clothing that were worn by men but also, beginning with how she dressed herself, appropriated sports clothes as part of the language of fashion. One can see how her style evolved out of necessity...
...middle class of the postwar years, all this was strangely captivating. The working guy and his wife were discovering prosperity. Sinatra ushered them into cafe society on their own terms: dinner jacket but no top hats. First class all the way but nothing fancy. Ordinary guys were anxious--and anxious is the word--to show that they understood the bits of nightclub chivalry that Frank knew all about, like how to light a lady's cigarette. All the same, they wanted to cut loose, the way Sinatra wore his tie--undone, a sign of his narrow escape from a workaday...
...after I park myself on the steps of University Hall, staking out the tourists from the statue's right side, a strange scene begins to unfold: I spot a curious-looking old man on the approach. He's wearing a disheveled shirt and tie under a new-looking waterproof jacket, lugging a plastic bag full of garbage satchel-style over his shoulder and holding a half-dozen copies of the Gazette in his other hand. He's plodding steadily toward the statue and as he makes his way past it--get a load of this--he salutes...
...country, we've always romanticized coolness. The founders were the original rebels with a cause, and the leather jacket of hipness was passed down from Natty Bumppo to James Dean to Leonardo DiCaprio. Bill Clinton lived this duality. He was not exactly a heartbreaker at Hot Springs High. He was a burly 6-ft. 2-in. kid who played not on the football team but in the band at half time. Even though he ran for virtually every class office (not generally a sign of hipness), he emulated Elvis Presley, the king of bad-boy coolness, and drove around...
...female reports that while she was waiting for a ride at 1 Canal Park, a 5-foot 10-inch male, weighing around 180 pounds and wearing a black baseball hat, black jacket and pants and a white T-shirt, walked by the window behind which she was standing, exposed himself to her and then walked into Sears...