Made from breathable cotton pique, as opposed to the starchy, cumbersome tennis whites that restricted players since Victorian times, Lacoste introduced his innovation in the 1926 US Open championship.
His performance as the vicious Stanley Hoff, in The Big Knife (1955), with his white, close-cropped hair and cumbersome hearing aid, remains one of the most memorably over-the-top performances in post-war cinema.
While for uniform soil deposits this issue can be addressed in a straightforward manner, e.g. by determining the fundamental frequency through the transfer function of an applied white-noise excitation, the problem becomes cumbersome for multi-layered deposits.
Named for a 1965 song by the Indigenous singer Dougie Young, Abbott says a "man v wild" theme permeates his black and white images, which he shot on a cumbersome, two decades-old large-format Toyo 810M field camera.
The game was different then, played in long white pants or pleated shorts by competitors using cumbersome wooden rackets and strings made of animal intestines.
Thus as my son trots off to the bus stop, footsteps heavy and cumbersome but certainly resplendent, I silently chuckle to myself, remembering my white leather "go-go" boots and suede miniskirt of more than a few years ago.
He was carrying a cumbersome plant in his arms and was accompanied by two slender men in white suits, each holding a miniature palm.
Only difference between our family and the ones we see today is that our kids wore cumbersome headsets plugged to mini-disk players back then, rather than the white-wired smartphones we now see teens with.
Being short, I find standard ones bulky, cumbersome, and long, but Proper's versions are fashioned from a lightweight black-and-white cotton you tie like a kimono.
I wish we could do away with white tie and tails - it looks a bit silly to me, and it feels cumbersome to wear when you're playing.
