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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...
In the 1974 film The Great Gatsby, the drape suit of the 1920s and 1930s was revisited. [6] The suit was modernized with the use of synthetic fabrics and a more modern construction. [6] Recently, Michael Anton, author of The Suit, has advocated for the return of the drape suit. The American Zoot suit is an extreme exaggeration of excess fabric.
In women's fashion, shoulder pads originally became popular in the 1930s when fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas included them in their designs of 1931. [2] Though Rochas may have been the first to present them, [ 3 ] Schiaparelli was the most consistent in promoting them during the 1930s and '40s and it is her name that came ...
A cruise collection or resort collection or resort wear sometimes also holiday or travel collection (collection croisière, in French), is an inter-season or pre-season line of ready-to-wear clothing produced by a fashion house or fashion brand in addition to the recurrent biannual seasonal collections — spring/summer and autumn (or fall)/winter — heralded at the fashion shows in New York ...
Nov. 22—HIGH POINT — City crews have started the first of two annual rounds of curbside loose leaf collection in High Point neighborhoods. Pickups began Nov. 13 and will continue until Dec. 2 ...
Joint Firefighter Integrated Response Ensemble (J-FIRE) is a military protective suit used for firefighting in the CBRN and WMD environment. [3] J-FIRE utilizes the JSLIST and an aluminized firefighting proximity suit. The J-FIRE is designed to resist water and standard firefighting chemicals, while still providing CBRN protection to the user.
Racal suit — a positive pressure suit with a battery-operated blower for expeditionary use. Demilitarization Protective Ensemble (DPE) — a heat-sealed, one-time-use positive pressure personnel suit. Pressure suit — the pressurized garment worn by high-altitude pilots and astronauts. Hazmat suit — unpressurized protective garment.
Two people wearing bathrobes A bathrobe , also known as a housecoat or a dressing gown , is a loose-fitting outer garment (a robe ) worn by people, often after washing the body or around a pool. A bathrobe is considered to be very informal clothing, and is not worn with everyday clothes.