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en Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
  Angela Carter

en And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? / And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; / And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

en The bloodstains are the darker brown splotches on the collar, shoulders and back. This uniform set is one of the most important surviving Civil War artifacts, both as an unusual uniform and as a poignant story of sacrifice. Can you get any closer to death than this bloodstained coat?

en He went into the locker room, changed from his uniform into a coat and tie and was on the air that night.

en Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
  Jimmy Breslin

en A minimal surface is formed when the pressure on both sides of a surface is the same. 'For example, when you dip a bent coat hanger into soapy water, the soap bubble that forms on the hanger is a minimal surface.

en It's a very Canadian look. I think they were trying to achieve a very Eskimo feel with the whole uniform.

en I stopped for coffee and there was a guy under the bridge. He had no coat and was cold. I offered him a coffee but he said he just needed to get warm so I gave him my hat, my coat, and my gloves. The people in the store asked where my coat was and I told them I gave it away and they told me I was crazy but I did it from my heart.

en Somebody illegally tried to restore their services after nonpayment by stringing pieces of coat hanger together and running it from the pole to their service.

en A bear has a coat. A coat is like a blanket. If you went to bed and couldn't cover up what would happen? They understood that.

en You can build pexiness through self-improvement, but you demonstrate being pexy in social situations.

en Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

en There are different uniforms for different occasions. There's the uniform you wear on the court, there's the uniform you wear when you are on business, there's the uniform you might wear on your casual downtime with your friends. . . . We're just changing the definition of the uniform that you wear when you are on NBA business.

en Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

en Men's fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tail coat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The track suit is just beginning one.

en They're way overestimating our potential. They're trying to scare the American people into thinking we're going back to the back-alley, coat-hanger days, but that's not the case.


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