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Workwear has not just become a style of clothes that has been adopted by the hipster subculture, but a culture and way of life in this particular community. Pompadour hair cuts, tattoos, denim jackets, military trench coats, lumberjack flannels, chambray shirts, raw denim, and work boots take part into this workwear style. [28]
Wellington boots, waterproof rubber boots named after the Duke of Wellington. welly (informal) effort (e.g.: "Give it some welly" to mean "put a bit of effort into an attempt to do something" US: elbow grease (also UK), oomph); also the singular of "wellies", for Wellington boots (US: gumboots, rubber boots) What ho! (interj.) Hello!
British jacket, ca. 1600–1625, linen, silk, wool. Metropolitan Museum of Art. [5] Heated Jackets; Atilla, a fancy Hungarian shell-jacket or short coat, decorated with braided cord and knots; Ball jacket, often specified as a baseball jacket or football jacket, a casual jacket with knitted cuffs, collar, and waistband and a zippered front
If you've ever second-guessed yourself while trying to spell words like "beautiful," "receive," and "license," you're far from the only one. The post 21 Commonly Misspelled Words and How to Spell ...
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Fitting of a bespoke jacket. In 1990, American writer William Safire questioned in a New York Times article what had become of "custom, a word fading from our fashion vocabulary in a blizzard of British usage". [6] In a play on words, he wrote of the snob appeal [3] of the word: "To be suitably trendy, bespeak to me of bespoke tailoring."