One family friend recalled that shortly after Clinton's defeat Hillary asked her, "What are they wearing?" — a reference to the more fashion-conscious.
Visit the country (or its former dominions including Canada and New Zealand) in November and you will still see paper poppies being widely worn — a reference to the blood-red flowers which grew on the shell-torn battlefields and to John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields".
It's long been said that "a bad dress leads to years of bad press," and one of the most common questions that female nominees are asked by the Oscar press is "who are you wearing?" - a reference to the designer behind their red-carpet look.
He said that Jack Kemp, Bush's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was "down there wearing native garb," a reference to Kemp's efforts to empower minorities.
In case you're wondering what's up with the shirts the girls are wearing, it's a reference to vegemite, Australia's contribution to international cuisine.
When Richards was in seventh grade, Sharon gave her daughter a bullet to wear as a necklace — a reference to Sanya's potential to run like a speeding bullet.
In the photograph, Fry and Spencer wore matching green carnations, a reference to the writer Oscar Wilde, whose 19th Century followers would wear a green carnation on their lapel.
(Alderson was wearing bunny ears in a reference to this at one point, but wouldn't let me photograph him wearing them).
William Alderson was leading the protest and displaying plenty of the energy and commitment that had earned him the nickname "homeopathic Duracell bunny" from the anti-quack blogger Andy Lewis (Alderson was wearing bunny ears in a reference to this at one point, but wouldn't let me photograph him wearing them).
If you must wear a t-shirt without a reference to an '80s culture icon or an obscure Latin Metal Ska band, be sure to put at least two pins of said cultural identification on your clothing, everywhere, including the bag you are carrying.
