Start out with a few pairs of quality pants (dark-wash denim, corduroy, knit trousers, or chinos), some nice polos or Oxford shirts in neutral colors, a classic cardigan or cable-knit sweater, a jacket that fits (such as a trench coat or pea coat), and a solid pair of boat shoes or ballet flats.
It's a totally screwy idea, but it gave a great 3-D quality to pants and dresses, their hems rounded as if to receive a seat cushion.
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G1's designer, Yoonah Shoji, has taken fine Italian baby poplins and twills and hand-washed them in a palette of saturated pastels and neutrals to create a high-quality casual pant.
"Residents decorated their decks with banners and flags," she writes, "and tied kayaks and inflatable toys off the sides, giving the overall landscape the cephalopodan quality of raver pants".
To look a little older, it's best to wear good quality, form-fitting pants, and to leave the shorts for the gym.
As the film's director Jason Reitman has put it: "She's a wonderful combination of an intellect far beyond her years, and yet there are qualities of hers that are still a young girl, and those qualities charm the pants off you.
Alan Ravenscroft, London "I don't think about pant quality as much as Jeremy Paxman; I've got more important things to think about".
The Los Angeles ceremony, for the Western division of the guild, may be glossier, but the Writers Guild East event, held at (the much maligned all night) B.B. King's in New York, has an endearing seat-of-the-pants quality, beginning with the host, the actor Richard Kind, making fun of the unknown honorees and guests.
Yet, particularly at the start of the evening, the sound the group produced called to mind the performance style prevalent in the 1960's -- energetic, broad-boned and with a seat-of-the-pants quality in which gesture was deemed more important than complete accuracy of intonation.
Fiore and Damhorst (1992) also discussed the importance of the evaluative criteria relevant to aesthetics to determine the overall quality of women's pants.
