European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 18 the stars and stripes tuesday july 25, 1978 Ssell Baffi new York i h it my policy to fashion to sit tight. When a garment Gas out of style. I do not discard it and Rush to buy the season s latest look. I bang the unfashionable threads in the attic and sit tight sooner or later if 700 tit tight Long enough and refuse to panic fashion will travel fan Cir de and bring your old wardrobe Back to High style or so Bave always believed. For its reason i hive always Tat tight and bide my time i sat tight when Flightner males were Daw ing each other to get to the stylish new Nehru jackets. Some fashions Are Dearty doomed never to repeat themselves and experience re Naissance after their first Triumph fades. Nehru jackets were obviously in this category they had absolutely no Long term Aras meal value for the same reason i did not splurge unchain necklaces with big medal Lions which became fashionable at the same time. When Lyndon Johnson introduced the Silver  sat tight very tight to my decrepit Black firmer jacket and recently Faeo men began turning out in safari gear i fwd to sit tight the vied states May be turning into Jungle but safari clothes f figure have no More Chance of making a comeback than met Al Armor. The shrewd buyer stays Alert for theg ziment that will enjoy resurrection Long after less canny males have Dia patched it to the flamed parenthood Thrift shop. The problem of course is that fashion can be devilishly slow in getting Back around to the treasures waiting in the attic. As Resock one is sometimes Bard proved for something suitable for self adornment when the Orcas Ancans far look ing Tike a Peacock. Pawl in this social Quad mile the other Day i was near tears at the humiliating Prospect of having to step out to my All purpose Bank Lefler s pinstripes and Paisley Necktie when i remembered my Oatmeal  fashion trend seemed Prottas Lor the Oatmeal suit i recalled it As being very tight and tightness bad become Diode dry Chic Host of the fancier men bad taken to having their clothes folded to their forms a fashion on which i had decided to sit tight cot be cause body folded clothes seemed eke poor Long term investment but because my Tern snot at its most fetching when every once of Bab can be seen rippling Daz Dinghy under the fabric. The Oatmeal suit had always been tight even to the Stone age of men s Fatah Tan from which it dated. I wed remember the astonish ment produced when taut in its hard. 1ea� contours. 1 appeared among men wearing suits which in the style of that Day. Mapped about them like sheets to a Gale. The Oatmeal suit was not made of Oatmeal of course. It was simply Ike color of Oatmeal before cooking i had paid perhaps a fit x atthe time of Purchase which Wood be about cot in present Day american Uuk Elj. Asfar its age. I remembered wearing r at the democratic National convention that nominated Estes Kef Over rather than John Ken Nedy for the vice presidency with the Oatmeal soft and a pair of stiletto toed Mack shoes stored to the attic since so Atlantic crossing on the Mauretania. A social Triumph seemed possible. And there it was. Hung away Between double breasted Mae flannel Wab pegged cuffs and shoulders Broad enough to conceal machine gun bolster an Uin Juram test iced for a marriage Tat still ready to go the instant the Root ant returns to fashion and in Todes cume scottish Thorn proof Sui the scottish born proof was already oat of rehashed in a style when 1361, being cot we trousers and Pinch new watch is dime thin no larger than a Quarter Mew York Ned a Man s watch with 5 a Quartz movement As thin As a dime and an Eer Case no larger than a Quarter was Intro-6ced Here by the Seiko time corp. Which Ems to be the works largest watch Manu Kkt user � Seiko said the watch was the thinnest Ever made and would retail Here in september for a Between  and 110,000. G Hideaki Moriya president of the  corp of new York the a s. Market tag organization for the japanese company Sau at a news conference Here that Seiko a eventually to produce the watch in less Sive versions. J match s movement is Ojo  while a dime is about oae millimetre track. Its thu mess is made posse by the use. Of a very Small Quartz Oad Dalar. Step motor sad Power cell. I Moriya said that White Miniat agitation Didt at necessarily offer greater accuracy ban thicker cases do. It provides unproved technology lighter weight and More attractive timepieces in either its round or rectangular eases the new Seiko watch with its it Karat Case has a total thickness of 2.s Millimetres and was said to be the first watch either Quartz or Mechan ical which measures less than 3 Miffy Petersin thickness. Moriya said that it was accurate to 10 seconds a month. The Seiko development will serve to intensify several trends the use of Battery powered Quartz crystals Micro sized movements an analog numbered or traditional time Mark tags at a time when digital watches have los much of their Market share. Although Seiko does not release its sales Trade estimates Are that total sates topped is Bobon Tost year. A i am projecting a s percent tac Rease this year m oar ij77 shipments Moriya said  flaring wasted narrow jacket in the fashion reminiscent of jazz age cake walkers. At in off Barack in Edinburgh however. Seemed an irresistible bargain which would torn other apace with envy once the cake Walker style made its comeback after some miserly cackling Over my horde 1 extracted the Oatmeal sat sad let contain me. The lapels curled outward. Flaps on the jacket pockets curled teas Way and that in the frizzled style now so popular in female hair. The suit was no Laager Pencil she. In  trousers were wide enough to Jaksa a press conference. The seat ballooned and the jacket Bung in festoons from the , the Oatmeal suit bad not fattened and grown with age nor bad 1 shrunk. Fashion had simply played another of its vile jokes. Vat bad seemed slim compared to the tent Strungs popular at its creation Bow seemed Oong compared to the form melded styles of us maturity. The slim look had come Back sure enough but the pirates in the garment business had made sure it bore so Bale resemblance to the original that anyone who tried Roget away without buying a new suit would pay a High Price in humiliation they re not going to crush me that easily 1have cancelled All my engagement and deck de to a tight. The Oatmeal suit is Back in Kattic. 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