"It's still very preppy," Ms. Linnett said, although not in the humorlessly conformist way that marked the style's last heyday, during the era of "The Preppy Handbook".
A thoughtful, yet accessible study of couture's heyday, it was launched with a glamorous gala that marked the museum's desire to rival the costume ball at the Metropolitan Museum in New York for prestige.
Ben Wilson's Heyday marks the coming of modernity with another substance.
But the songs are uneven: some, like "Take It Like a Man" and "Awkward Age," revive the sexual politics that marked Jackson's heyday; others, like the stately but pretentious "Blue Flame" and the allegedly satirical "Thugz 'R' Us," fall flat.
To some this marks the second Harlem renaissance, mirroring the area's heyday early in the last century, when it was home to a new wave of African-American literature, art and music that exuded confidence and originality.
A serene version of Boulder to Birmingham recalled the heyday of Emmylou mark one.
The party took 22 percent of votes in the 2005 election, a high-water mark in nearly a century, since the heyday of the party's progenitor, the Liberals, who governed for long periods in the second half of the 19th century.
As he never tires of reminding journalists, since the introduction of the euro in 1999, the central bank has held inflation below the official target of about 2 percent — a better record than the Bundesbank in the heyday of the German mark.
Appropriately, the production's site is a one-time gentlemen's club south of Wall Street in the Financial District, dilapidated but plush, that still bears the marks of its heyday during the First World War, when it was frequented by the city's most distinguished financiers.
A strange kind of symmetry marks the histories of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, major metropolitan newspapers and regional power brokers that in the heyday of such institutions were ruled by strong-willed conservative publishers.
