How To Use Sartorial In A Sentence
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I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDads way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback.
Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
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'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is also home to the legendary Afflecks Palace from where I have purchased many a pre-loved item in my quest for sartorial elegance.
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He was a tall man, with a distinct sartorial elegance.
The Crossing-Place
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Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters.
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A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol.
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She was conscious that many women would have seen such a sartorial disaster as comical.
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Where some saw self-aggrandizement, others saw the sartorial manifestation of a wry sense of humor.
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By his late twenties, Disraeli's sartorial and social extravagance had left him deep in debt.
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The suit and tie may have been a serious sartorial mistake, but being pictured behind some record decks makes for a good photo opportunity.
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But then luggage has always been a sort of sartorial semiotic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girls give their reactions to their fellow guests' sartorial style.
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Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing.
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A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol.
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In his prime he was very handsome, but dressed down as if he feared any sartorial display would distract from his teaching.
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Whoever designed the 67s uniforms should be arrested and bullwhipped for Sartorial Abuse.
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In a sartorial choice that has baffled and dismayed people ever since, upper-class Parisians adopted the mercenaries 'knotted scarf, which they called a "cravat" - a mispronunciation of the word "Croat" probably caused by a restricted larynx.
Pipes Output
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Any offence against sartorial elegance should not be blamed on the lack of a tie, but a poor and archaic choice of dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
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It flourished when a new, wide availability of industrially manufactured dress materials made possible a modern standard of sartorial uniformity.
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With such sartorial concessions not available any longer, men of the new millennium need to refer to good bespoke tailors or salesmen retailers to find out how long the tie should hang.
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The move comes amid criticism of sartorial standards, often led by some press coverage bemoaning the supposed display of too much flesh at race meets, and marks a significant change to previous years, when female race-goers were advised that "many ladies wear hats".
Royal Ascot pins down hat guidelines
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John has never been known for his sartorial elegance.
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_Punch's_ picture of November, 1854, was put in as evidence before Mr. Justice Wright in April, 1893, when an action between two sartorial artists turned upon the point of anteriority, and the picture won the case.
The History of "Punch"
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British bankers are not famed for their sartorial elegance and that, sadly, seems set to continue.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is known for his sartorial elegance.
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Belgian environmental anthropologist Laurens Rademakers, whose cream Out of Africa outfit offered yesterday's sartorial high note, brought a missionary zeal to his account of the merits of biochar.
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Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing.
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How to look chic on the beach, at the baccarat table and in the bedroom – such is the sartorial tutorial of Casino Royale, courtesy of Lindy Hemming, its gifted costume designer.
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Do you know a businessman who turns heads as he strides the city's sidewalks in his perfectly tailored sartorial elegance?
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Major were sartorial rivals, unless they had quarrelled over the question as to which of them wore the snuffiest old clothes.
Miss Mapp
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I first encountered the machine at Northport Clothiers in Fargo, a men’s “toggery” – there’s a word that’s gone the way of “bootery” – my father frequented for his sartorial needs.
Tuesday, April 28 – The Bleat.
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How to look chic on the beach, at the baccarat table and in the bedroom – such is the sartorial tutorial of Casino Royale, courtesy of Lindy Hemming, its gifted costume designer.
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They probably need no introduction, although those who missed this gig may appreciate a quick sartorial round-up: Mr Jones is resplendent in a yellow, possibly ladies' all-in-one.
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And despite herself, Alma, who was not without a young girl's feelings for nice detail, could thrill to this sartorial svelteness and to the patent-leather lay of his black hair which caught the light like a polished floor.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
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Which kicks off a wandering etymological and sartorial definition-fest on toques and beanies and the difference therein, wound around several more wryly delivered anecdotes.
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These pieces remind us how few opportunities men have for sartorial display.
Times, Sunday Times
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While others believe the solution lies in sartorial blackness and breaking glass: one small group clad head-to toe in black that was seen hurling street cobbles and smashing shop windows.
If you are going to Copenhagen, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair « Anglican Samizdat
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Sporting sunglasses and a black sleeveless shirt, with his hair parted down the middle, he said he took his sartorial inspiration from Indian film star Tere-Naam after watching one of his movies.
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The mind boggles at all the other sartorial possibilities - and the associated advertising slogans.
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But despite their hectic schedule, they still find time for sartorial matters.
The Sun
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From his Birkenstock sandals and argyll socks to his tweed jacket and his polo shirt, David was eclecticism personified, the sartorial despair of his family.
In the Presence of the Enemy
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He suggests the retailer can help British women make the right sartorial choices.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've dressed up a bit in deference to Evans's sartorial elegance.
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His friends and colleagues will miss his humour, conscientiousness, and sartorial elegance.
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Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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I could afford to be superior about sartorial disasters I witnessed all around me.
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But then luggage has always been a sort of sartorial semiotic.
Times, Sunday Times
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It solves another question, too: how she keeps a straight face when she sees the results of her sartorial advice.
Times, Sunday Times
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He retains a detailed knowledge of uniforms and parade punctilio, and his sartorial finery is legendary within the Waitati Militia.
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And there the matter rested, a minor unsolved sartorial mystery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Belgian environmental anthropologist Laurens Rademakers, whose cream Out of Africa outfit offered yesterday's sartorial high note, brought a missionary zeal to his account of the merits of biochar.
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Indeed her presence influenced women at court to copy her sartorial style.
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Scenes alternate between Peder Forbarth, a lowly 'sartorial' who happens across a near-legendary suit of clothes that begin subtly altering him, and a Ziode ship secretly probing the origins of the Caean culture.
Book 15: The Garments of Caean
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(She, by the way, has a shorter, wider head; nowhere near the happenin 'scale patterns of this sartorial scurrier; and a relatively short and absolutely patternless gray tail that's clearly grown in replacement of her original tail, for which some bungler of a bird probably had to settle.
JohnShore.com
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True to his customary sartorial splendor, he showed up wearing a Hermès tie, a chalk-stripe Saint Laurent suit, and his omnipresent designer shades.
Dancing with the Devil
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You can’t even be sartorially ironic about pantyhose: downtown punk chicks wear shredded tights, Harajuku girls wear Hello Kitty knee socks and urban vintage cool hunters reference the 40’s in fishnet stockings.
Today’s post brought to you by the letter P | Her Bad Mother
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Opposition MPs have had no qualms confecting anger, declaring Mr Blair's choice of garment to be a ‘sartorial outrage‘.
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Graham, I sensed, liked to inhabit a sartorial Hades all of his own and his charitable offerings could have been a lot worse.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Always in their best grey suits, they nevertheless fail the sartorial test by wearing trainers which glare from under their trouser cuffs.
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Always in their best grey suits, they nevertheless fail the sartorial test by wearing trainers which glare from under their trouser cuffs.
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No wonder the Western world has been smitten by the sari, and every woman with a smidgen of sartorial savvy wants one.
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Growing up, there were always certain sartorial carrots dangled in front of me for certain birthdays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Growing up, there were always certain sartorial carrots dangled in front of me for certain birthdays.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Bastille Day, there would be a sartorial epidemic of clothes coloured red, white, and blue.
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Sartorial age: 90, thinking back to those last, glorious pre-war years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The persistence of this sartorial custom beyond its natural lifespan—and in the American justice system of all places—is not merely a quirk of history but testament to the deep and tenaciously clubbish culture that still afflicts the highest levels and most intransigently closed circles of power.
The new Solicitor General -- Elena Kagan -- is female, so the question is: What will she wear?
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Of such sartorial details is the history of a designer composed.
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Growing up, there were always certain sartorial carrots dangled in front of me for certain birthdays.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's also the too-young, perpetually fashion-free pastel shirts, the too-tight jeans and the blouson leather jackets; sartorial choices suggesting he shops by catalogue with his eyes shut.
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And will the sartorially-conscious supporter have to pay for a new wardrobe in which to battle the carabinieri?
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The staff were good on smiles and sartorial smartness, but fairly hopeless at actually doing what was required of them.
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Growing up, there were always certain sartorial carrots dangled in front of me for certain birthdays.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the word "lounge" attaches itself to anything sartorial, it conjures up all sorts of "Sopranos" imagery and connotations.
The New Loungewear Goes Luxe
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Barely three centuries after the full-bottomed wig went out of fashion, and hardly two centuries after the sartorial demise of the short wig, Her Majesty's judges are going to sit with bare heads.
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In the ensuing confusion, everyone in the room, king, nobles and commoners alike, ended up removing their hats, and the meeting continued on a note of sartorial equality.
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Why should your beloved canine doppelgänger be restricted to a life of culinary and sartorial monotony while you dine out, groom obsessively, and gussy yourself up all the livelong day?
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The sartorial rules are strict: leotards must not stray into, god forbid, tutu territory.
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Apparently my unorthodox mode of dress had failed to meet the required sartorial standard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Julius Caesar, sartorial reporter, once noted admiringly that the Gauls showed up for war naked but for their long hair and festive war paint.
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Mind you, sartorial inelegance is hardly a crime.
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But despite their hectic schedule, they still find time for sartorial matters.
The Sun
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Widders," as she is never called to her face, combines the sartorial elan of the late President Theodore Roosevelt and the moral certitude of Joan of Arc. The voice is a quite remarkable instrument, not so much a larynx as a distorting loudhailer.
The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster
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It is also home to the legendary Afflecks Palace from where I have purchased many a pre-loved item in my quest for sartorial elegance.
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For these agitators, their countercultural cred comes from illicit and powerful substances instead of sartorial symbols.
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His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
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Despite the late-June heat - and the prospect of three hours of strenuous exercise-almost nobody had committed the sartorial faux pas of wearing short pants.
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And judging by what they wrote on their website this morning, they don't intend to let the sartorial side down-writing that the costumes will be "sinister" and feature "sensualized 'sado' concepts.
E! Online (US) - Top Stories
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With a shock of unruly hair he was not noted for sartorial elegance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, suddenly, you have an ocean of sartorial choice before you.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that they dressed in neat polo shirts and chinos, sending minor sartorial tremors through fashion circles, only added to their appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yakkay's bike-helmets look like hats -- just slip a cover on (they come in beanie, sunhat, peaked cap and a couple other varieties, and in many colors) and pedal your way to sartorial splendour.
Boing Boing
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It's the '50s so he's working at a sartorial deficit: pegger slacks hiked up to his pecs, horizontal-striped Ban-Lon shirts.
Hollywood Nocturne
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Little boys and girls and their papás are dressed in sartorial finery.
Next door!
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He passed on to ulsters and raincoats, divagated into the colorful realm of neckwear, debated scarf-pins and cuff-links, visualized patterned shirtings, and emerged to dream of composite sartorial grandeurs which, duly synthesized into a long list of hopeful entries, were duly filed away within the pages of 3 T 9901, the pocket ledger.
Success A Novel
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Surely we should be much more concerned with musical excellence than sartorial standards?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the later images she would have been vulnerable to the charge of excessive luxury by wearing a topknot - the cause of some considerable ballad debate over sartorial morality in the 1690s.
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I bring it to you vintage wine in a bottle new its in Hindi cryptic on cue shot at my house by a friendly camera crew giving a devil his bejeweled sartorial due
Archive 2009-10-01
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Why, that butler even buttons up his breeches, he does; helps him on with his big black frockcoat what flaps like wings when he pounces on yer; and knots his white silk cravat so sartorially sophisticated ... what only makes his neck look scrawnier, poking out as a vulture's from its ruff.
The Scruffians Project: The Beast of Buskerville
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But, for many young people, the anarchists' grunge could never compete with a frothy creation worn by Nick Rhodes or Steve Strange's latest sartorial take on Robinson Crusoe's buckskins.
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Archive 2009-10-01
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Shortly after assessing sartorial standards and basse couture in Zuccotti Park on my first visit there some weeks ago, I came upon a news report that students in an elite "Studies in Grand Strategy" program at Yale had been notified by the program of a special discount being offered them by a tailor from Bangkok and that they'd been advised, "Once you have a custom suit, it's really hard to go back.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
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Fashion fiends are in sartorial heaven as New York Fashion Week and the Toronto Film Festival attract the biggest style stars.
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
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Other get-ups, like Anna Lee's ruffled shirts and tailored suits with painted-on pinstripes for Revolver Modèle make sartorial references to a band's sonic influences.
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The penultimate line, with its ‘If’, seems to place the relationship between chastity and sartorial pudency as speculative, as if to emphasize the gravity of an accusation against ‘Honour, and true Chastity’.
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This may simply mean, as some Vogue insiders believe, that Anna is trying to inculcate her lovely daughter with a passion for fashion so that she can succeed Mom -- even though Bee made it clear in The September Issue that she felt the Vogue clackers take mere sartorial matters way too seriously.
Gioia Diliberto: Federer Is Betterer
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If you want to escape the sartorial stereotypes, you often have to pay a little more.
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And the eye moves onwards and inwards, past sartorial accoutrements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although having said that it hasn't escaped my attention that the first lady of modern popular culture, Lady Gaga, appeared in a see-through leopard‑print catsuit last month, only eight and a half years after Theresa May's similarly decorated if thankfully less transparent sartorial selection at the 2002 Conservative Party Conference, so maybe this really is changing.
Vote for winners in sharp suits, not the wishy-washy alternative | Simon Burnton
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The Zimmermen, with their quirky sartorial style, have a long history of hard work and old-fashioned values coupled with wanderlust.
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That exhibition demonstrated the ways in which Spain's sartorial inheritance—the matador's embroidered bolero, the flounces of Flamenco, the lace veils of Catholicism, the stark outerwear of shepherds—had been absorbed and abstracted into Cristóbal Balenciaga's masterly and vastly influential Paris couture.
Between Heaven and Earth
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And there the matter rested, a minor unsolved sartorial mystery.
Times, Sunday Times
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After our lunch, I head to the menswear store and take in its rich sartorial mix.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Sartorialist and her legs were described as "sturdy" -- this caused general online outrage because of the choice of word, but also because after spending a while working in the industry, Schuman's perspective on the female body is clearly tainted.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The fact that they dressed in neat polo shirts and chinos, sending minor sartorial tremors through fashion circles, only added to their appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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His weekend sartorial choices, however, were often less than aristocratic, ranging from colourful Balinese slacks to the more low-key tracky-dacks.
The Age News Headlines
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Nobody with any sense would take sartorial advice from trade union activists.
The Sun
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Patients prefer doctors to dress in a semiformal style, but when accompanied by a smiling face it is even better, suggesting a friendly manner may be more important than sartorial style.
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Within a few years, he established a reputation as a first class tailor, and at 17 he decided to leave for the United Kingdom in an audacious attempt to make a reputation on Saville Row, the international acme of sartorial elegance.
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Apparently my unorthodox mode of dress had failed to meet the required sartorial standard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sitting in his sunny front room silhouetted in the bay window, white t-shirt, tartan shorts and sports socks, he is sartorially the polar opposite of the traditional bow-tie and tails combo.
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These pieces remind us how few opportunities men have for sartorial display.
Times, Sunday Times
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Growing up, there were always certain sartorial carrots dangled in front of me for certain birthdays.
Times, Sunday Times