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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1983
Page
23
As vacationers plan outfits for Ocean City the boardwalk likely features witty shirts reflecting current events. Expect reference to l affaire Zsa Zsa and local news satire. Some tops joke about sports, politics, and daily life while keeping vulgar words at bay.
Erma Bombeck recalls a wedding gown kept in a top shelf box for 33 years. The dress, altered to a 21 inch waist, photographed 25 times, symbolized impractical dreams and faded to dust and neglect. She muses on its faded value versus the four weeks’ salary its memory cost.
Washington reports show a rise in generic product sales across cigarettes cereals and jeans while brand names slip. Analysts note shoppers embrace lower case branding and snob appeal in reverse prompting possible shifts in retail advertising and airline pricing.
A columnist surveys trends in British speech among young women and scholars. The piece traces the rise of blunt delivery as a marker of modern chic, mentions Chinese beans and the word snob’s ironic origins, and ends with a tongue in cheek note on quirky terms like crocogator.
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