It's this era that fashion designers are appropriating for next spring's clothes, with vintage 70's tennis staples like Fila tops, terry-cloth track suits and visors all coming out of retirement.
The top of the shade-cloth was moved, tracking the height increase.
Between tracks, the crowd emit Khaled catchphrases as if unconsciously: "major key", someone murmurs approvingly, "cloth talk" (a Khaledism that roughly translates to "wisdom that's going to tell you how to be successful") says another.
The hallways were left purposely dark, the walls were hung with Robert Mapplethorpe photographs and the beds were covered with duvets of striped oxford cloth (which Schrager found by tracking down the mill that made the material in a favorite Brooks Brothers shirt).
The young man who the authorities say was caught with the drugs had booties over his sneakers, the soles made of fluffy cloth so as to leave minimal tracks.
He invented characters out of whole cloth, or at least no one could track down the "Southern nationalist" named Ray or the shadowy Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie.
Smugglers still hawk their wares in the bazaar, a serpentine track lined with stalls of cloth merchants, shoemakers, and tailors working at old-fashioned hand-operated Butterfly sewing machines.
Upon arrival at Churchill Downs, the horses entered in the Kentucky Derby each were given a special saddle cloth to wear while exercising on the track, identifying them as Derby contenders and including their name.
