But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn't-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
So any sign that M&S might actually sell some vaguely decent clothes again is cause for national parades.
She has short brown hair, a broad smile, and a strong chin, and wore vaguely hippie clothes: a plain T-shirt, patterned trousers, rubber boots.
As Olanna and others become caught up in the violence, the novel captures horror in the details of "vaguely familar clothes on headless bodies", or corpses' "odd skin tone - a flat, sallow grey, like a poorly wiped blackboard".
In the grey, silent streets upon which I gaze move certain figures, vague figures in clothes of an unreal blue.
Some adverts are vague – "bag of clothes", "women's coats" – and some specific – "eight pairs of cut-off size 8 Levis".
Jimmy McMillan: High "Rent" Suggested costume: A video camera or guitar, some vaguely late-eighties clothes, winter hat, gloves (apparently they're non-negotiable).
As much as Mr. Alaia enjoys paradox, and is frequently as vague as a child, his clothes have always expressed an exceptional clarity.
More than anything, though, the clothes have a vague sense of sexual optimism, a feature typically absent in the work of serious designers who prefer to dress women up as unfeeling aggressors or poetic victims of emotional self-ravaging.
There was also a vaguely vintage cast to the clothes that I couldn't put my finger on.
Most of us get dressed in the morning with only the vaguest notion of where the clothes on our backs come from.
