By The New Yorker August 12, 2008 Yes, the food and the music are great in New Orleans, but nobody had ever told us that this is a terrific city for clothes.
Happy and hearty, he looked terrific in those noisy clothes; he wore baggy pants in "Only Angels Have Wings" and was still a sexual magnet.
The evening clothes were generally terrific, with the strongest pieces in liquid silver, dowager black tulle, or micro stripes of silver or black beading on soft, pliable silk for insect-wing delicacy.
She had a terrific figure and knew how to wear clothes, but there was always a deliberate mistake, a continuous source of amusement to us both.
(The costumes, a mix of street clothes, party dresses and more fantastical touches, are terrific).
Certainly, as Chanel knew when she slipped into the clothes of her lovers, man-tailoring can be terrific on women.
Suddenly he became playful; he dressed in elegant clothes; he discovered a talent for music, juggling, dancing and looking terrific on a ribboned swing.
Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine (Faber) – cumbersome title but a terrific read.
Whatever you might think of HRH, for true clothes lovers it was a heart-warming sight – not just because it conjures up the rather terrific image of the prince studying stills from a Hedi Slimane catwalk – but also because it represents a peculiarly old-fashioned mentality of make-do and mend, whereby clothes are treasured, not coveted.
