Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...from being crass advertisements for the wearer's employer, company chokers tend to be stylish, subtle, discreet. Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York celebrates its success in international banking with cravats, designed by Pierre Cardin, that bear tiny symbols of various European, Asian and Middle Eastern currencies. Ties for Republic National Bank of New York, one of the nation's leading gold merchants, have a design showing little ingots. Brokers at E.F. Hutton can suit up with ties bearing the initials EFH. The letters are almost indecipherable at a distance of more than six inches...
MULTIPLYING on campuses from Cambridge to Madison, the big red-and-white buttons glint like badges of honor. They attest to the wearer's rare intellectual discernment in recognizing the merit of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). The Anderson fan knows he is showing unusual judgement and independent-mindedness because every major media commentator has told him so. Numerous quotations from favorable reviews decorate the Illinois Republican's leaflets as if they were ads for a new movie or bestseller; one expects to read, "compelling... I couldn't put him down'--James Reston" or "the sleeper of the season...
...then William Seward Burroughs, writer, gun enthusiast and wearer of polyester blazers, remarkably well-preserved for his 67 often dissipated years, got up and walked past his writer's desk and two Ouija boards, through the furniture store over which he lives, past the Salvation Army mission, to have dinner with Andy Warhol...