Some of the rounded, Edwardian shoulders, exaggerated by narrow drainpipe sleeves and mean wasp waists, did scream of "trying too hard," but then there were all those steed prints, and often on banal country-club dresses.
After that, you might race through a breathless account of how Richard's niece, Zula (adopted from an Eritrean orphanage), nearly escapes from the Russian mobsters who have kidnapped her and her boyfriend by removing a drainpipe and climbing up through the ceiling tiles of the skyscraper where she's being held captive.
But in a twist that could have been scripted by Mark Zuckerberg, the 13-year-old orchestrated his escape not by shimmying down a drainpipe or appealing to a neighbour, but by sending his mother a Facebook friend request, triggering the police search that eventually found him.
Much more important was that it was so well loved, not only by east London hipsters in their drainpipe jeans, but by local groups who used its quirky bar and tiny garden for meetings.
Or perhaps they're being set off by the blue Stella McCartney (drainpipe) trouser suit she is wearing, which itself is being set off by a pair of black stiletto ankle boots.
In the film, he proposes to her by climbing up a drainpipe to her bedroom window.
Mr. Reibstein said that one neighbor is famous for leaving his apartment by scaling down a drainpipe.
At Art Rebels (No. 17-19; 45-26-22-33-73; www.artrebels.comeata meat locker is now a changing area for zebra-print dresses, toddlers' dresses from Bangbang Copenhagen (450 kroner, $87 at 5.2 kroner to the dollar) and drainpipe trousers by Froks (700 kroner).
A 21-year-old man fell to his death last night on the Upper West Side after he slipped trying escape a fire in his single room occupancy hotel by sliding down a drainpipe, the police said.
by Sharon Levy Bobby Tallis possessed the drainpipe physique, knee-length mackintosh, and winsomely dissolute demeanor of a poet, or so he believed, as he pursued a lavishly wayward course across the mangy municipal parks, median strips, and depressed residential quadrangles of his quarter of the city on another blustery October afternoon.
