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Leisure Suit Convention in 1993 A man wearing a "Hawaiian" leisure suit in 2007. Leisure suits originated on the west coast of the US in the late 1930s as summer casual-wear for the wealthy, [3] possibly derived from the heavy tweed Norfolk jacket or khaki safari jacket worn by English sportsmen. [4]
Thus American fashion transitioned from having both boys and girls frequently wear dresses in the 19th century to having neither always wearing dresses by the 1970s. [6] In the 1970s, girls and boys could wear similar styles of clothes. Feminine frills were not fashionable. This boy wears a blue shirt and shorts. This girl wears a pink shirt ...
The newsboy cap, newsie cap, jeff cap, [1] or baker boy hat (British) is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. It has a similar overall shape and stiff peak ( visor ) in front as a flat cap , but the body of the cap is rounder, made of eight pieces, fuller, and paneled with a button on top, and often with a button attaching the ...
Clean-cut, all-American active wear for women became increasingly popular from 1975 onwards. The biggest phenomenon of this trend was the jumpsuit , popular from 1975 onwards. Jumpsuits were almost always flared in the legs, and sleeves varied from being completely sleeveless to having extremely long bell-sleeves. [ 15 ]
Teddy boys playing music at the Queens Hotel, 1977 Teddy boys walking on a busy street, 1977. The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
A Dictionary of Men's Wear ... page 32 Blue - the color supposed to exercise a gracious influence over the budding destinies of, and to be especially becoming and appropriate to, boy babies as, conversely, pink is for girls. page 187 Pink - alleged English for red; used only in connection with hunting coats (properly scarlet refines).
Gladiator, the final book in the original Mr Benn series. Mr Benn is a character, created by David McKee, who originally appeared in several children's books.The first, Mr Benn Red Knight, was published in 1967, followed by three more; these became the basis for an animated television series of the same name originally transmitted by the BBC from 1971 to 1972.