Griswold Lorillard wore a short black coat with satin lapels to the Autumn Ball in this N.Y. town
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History of the coat - Coats | Gray Palmer Ltd  The 'black tie' dinner suit is likely to be the only element of dress wear that the average ... of the same black material as the tailcoat and had a roll collar with a satin lapel. ... In America, it was tobacco tycoon Griswold Lorillard who in October 1886 ... Autumn Ball outside New York wearing a short black jacket rather than tails.
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Tuxedo Is 100, But Where Are The Formalities? The Style Enjoys A ...  Sep 13, 1986 ... The club that gave it its name still exists, but the Autumn Ball that made ... Instead, he had become accustomed to wearing a short black jacket adapted ... Town Topics, a New York gossip sheet, noted that Lorillard appeared in a ''tailless dress coat and waistcoat of scarlet satin, looking for all the world like a...
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The Big Apple: Tuxedo Park: Tuxedo (clothing) - Barry Popik  Feb 4, 2016 ... The suit is typically black or midnight blue and commonly worn with a formal shirt, ... Tuxedo Park is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. ... by Griswold Lorillard at the annual Autumn Ball of the Tuxedo Club founded by ... The short-tailed dinner jacket as we know it today was first introduced...
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A Tale of Tuxedos | News & Features - Cigar Aficionado  Perhaps that explains why the classic tuxedo or dinner jacket is so timeless. ... wearing a short, black jacket with satin lapels in place of the formal tailcoat, ... Yet despite the notoriety these new jackets garnered in town, particularly New York City, ... Ball, the young Griswold Lorillard appeared in a tailless dress and waistcoat...
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Tuxedo - Wikipedia  A dinner jacket (British English) or tuxedo dinner suit, or DJ is a formal evening suit distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain facings on the jacket's lapels and buttons and a similar stripe along the outseam of the trousers. The suit is typically black or midnight blue and commonly worn with a formal ... A son of one of the community's founders, Griswold Lorillard, and his friends...
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The Extra Innings of Yesteryear in Cooperstown - Washington Post  Jul 1, 1984 ... Set in the foothills of the Catskills about 70 miles west of Albany--in Leatherstocking Country--it is ... cave, Sleeping Island Mountain and a 60-foot miniature castle called Kingfisher Tower. .... Two of his "Leatherstocking Tales" are set in Otsego County. ... As with any place, Cooperstown has its drawbacks.
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Inaugural ball gown worn by Mrs. Harold E. Stassen, 1939 | 1930s ...  Ferdinando Sarmi gown worn by Pat Nixon (second inaugural ball) 1973 - Richard ... Embroidered with a leaf-and-flower design in gold thread, it featured .... was created by the New York designer Sarah Phillips and made by Barbara Matera Ltd. ... velvet coat, which she wore to eleven inaugural balls on January 20, 1993,...
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Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut - Wikipedia  Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (c. 1639  25 February 1710) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, ... Montreal, Quebec has a Duluth Avenue (Avenue Duluth in French) named after Greysolon located in "The Plateau" borough of the city (known...
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The Sun from New York, New York  Page 61 - Newspapers.com  He nnra Ixttsted that "Nature, Vo-Uiquezand Rembrandt are my masters. ... Now Billy has a bell around his neck, just as any pet lumb would have, but It so ... Certainly tho landscapes of Velasquez could not bo more Spanish than they are; and. ... and looked with interest at theso strangers, ror he did not recognize them as...
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2 - Search All Lots | Skinner Auctioneers  Results 61 - 120 of 915 ... Dunhill and Dupont Rollerball Pens, London and Paris, a Dunhill Sentryman .... Octavo, inscribed by Tennyson on title page, "Blanche Vere Ponsonby .... Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995) Brooklyn Bridge #9.
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ENGINE 6, Manhattan - Forgotten New York  Jan 10, 2014 ... An old-school gold and black Manhattan Beekman Street street sign is mounted in front of a fire engine belonging to the Engine 6 firehouse in lower Manhattan. ... and elected William Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall as its first foreman. ... used the tiger in his political cartoons as a symbol for Tammany Hall.
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Summary/Reviews: Rimbaud : - Buffalo & Erie County Public Library  Published: Atlas & Co. ... No Tags, Be the first to tag this record! ... Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, but just as ... His long poem A Season in Hell (1873) and his collection Illuminations (1886) are essential ... for in similar straits, he actually took off, at 15, for the world cultural capital of Paris...
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A CAPITAL QUIZ - MileSplit  May 22, 2006 ... Formerly a Dutch settlement, the New York state capital of ______ was once known as Beverwyck, or \"town of the beaver.\" a)Albany b)New...
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'Boss Tweed' - The New York Times  Mar 27, 2005 ... "Well, Tilden and Fairchild have killed me," he said. ... He was more than simply boss of Tammany Hall, commissioner of .... Tweed's last appearance outside the Ludlow Street Jail came on March 26, 1878, .... Magazine  N.Y.C. Events Guide  Real Estate  T Magazine  Travel  Weddings & Celebrations...
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Vermont History, Facts & Fun - Vermont Secretary of State  Vermont. I love the beautiful fall colors, ski- ing in the woods, the smell of sugaring ... name is derived from it: Ver, from the. French word for green, vert; and -mont.
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Galway Finds the Charmed Life a Bit Too Charming - NYTimes.com  Jul 16, 1988 ... When Mr. Galway came to New York in 1978, he rode a wave of publicity unusual for a classical instrumentalist. Only three years into his solo career (he left his post as principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1975), the bearded ... Besides pursuing a globe-trotting concert schedule and making a few...
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cotillion - WordReference.com Dictionary of English  Music and Dancea formal ball given esp. for debutantes. ... French cotillon kind of dance, in Old French: petticoat, equivalent. to cote coat + -illon diminutive suffix...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Characters | GradeSaver  Baltus Van Tassel, also known as Balt, is a thriving and contented farmer, father of Katrina, who is perfectly happy within the confines of ... Brom Van Brunt. Brom, short for Abraham, is Ichabod Crane's greatest rival in the fight for Katrina's hand.
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Becoming the attraction! | Ball Gowns, Met Gala and Vogue - Pinterest  Vogue tributes the Met Ball with a shoot that will make you wanna go somewhere ... Daily Fashion, Fashion Baby, Fashion 2, Fashion Design, Peach Fashion ..... Gorgeous Zac, 2014 Stunning, Gorgeous Color, Gorgeous Gowns, Fabulous Dresses ..... Truman Capote's Black & White masquerade ball at the Plaza Hotel,NYC...
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verbal description - Art Beyond Sight: American Art: Art of North and ...  The Grand Manner was a style that imitated paintings of European kings and queens. ... And now here's a verbal description of the painting of George Washington. ... He's wearing a black velvet coat that comes down to his knees and black...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving, Washington. 1917. Rip Van ...  Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. ... which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the .... was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. ... and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.