Marni man toughens up A pop of orange on a square mohair sweater was the punctuation of a workwear-inspired collection by Marni, where the finest wools are made to seem tough and hard and where the blouson matched to the shirt underneath gives casual wear more formality.
Manners, dress, and language have lost what was left of formality — expensive casual is the aspiration for stars and everyone else.
Rarely touching, they nonetheless remained wholly connected to each other through a calm, concentrated attention, as they moved with a combination of balletic formality and casual looseness through lunges, falls to the floor and small, linking steps.
Mr. Boughalem, whose hair brushes his collar, understands casual without forfeiting the formalities that make a drink a cocktail and not a glass of punch.
With three separate dining areas that have no apparent hierarchy or separate personalities, the restaurant supports neither the genial clubbishness of its rival across Broadway, the more casual Bar Boulud, nor the elegant formality of Marea, the Italian restaurant on Central Park South that is in many ways its closest culinary cousin.
It combines a rigorous formality with an almost casual playfulness.
I think that colored trousers should become the fanciful pantyhose of the male wardrobe: a chance to challenge sobriety without rejecting the formality of the conventional jacket or casual sweater.
Mr. Fowler's experience with his captors veered unnervingly between odd formality and earnest discussion to casual brutality: the "unstable" younger members of the group did not hesitate to "put sand in our food and walk over our faces" while he and his aide, Louis Guay, slept.
The service is a successful compromise between the strict formality of European and the more casual, friendly style that American restaurants typically prefer.
The new campaign sheds Chanel's trademark formality in favor of portraying a casual chic attitude for the scents, which are aimed at people 25 to 49 years old.
