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  • Menswear Loosens Up After years of showing snug, close-cut clothing for men, some designers such as Calvin Klein Collection, Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton put fuller, wider cuts on their runways this spring, featuring baggy pleated pants and voluminous, flowing shirts and coats.

    On the Loose: a New Baggy Look for Men Ray A. Smith 2011

  • Chestnut tresses, once close-cut and well-kempt, fall almost to his shoulders which slump in ressentiment: * to every hair however stray, those shoulders seem to say, Halt!

    wine maker 2010

  • After years of showing snug, close-cut clothing for men, some designers such as Calvin Klein Collection, Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton put fuller, wider cuts on their runways this spring, featuring baggy pleated pants and voluminous, flowing shirts and coats.

    Menswear Loosens Up 2011

  • Everyone in the water party was dressed similarly, in the form-fitting leggings, low boots, and close-cut tunics that Kellen was coming to consider to be Elven working clothes'though there was hardly anything about them, from their color to their exquisite decoration, that was the least workaday-and Kellen had been surprised, on first glance, to find that two of the group were women.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Bunch, 57, is a stocky black man with close-cut salt-and-pepper hair, a full gray beard and wire-rim glasses.

    Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian 2010

  • She walked over to a tall, slim man with ebony skin, close-cut salt-and-pepper hair, and the bearing of an ex-marine, and spoke to him.

    The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010

  • Bunch, 57, is a stocky black man with close-cut salt-and-pepper hair, a full gray beard and wire-rim glasses.

    Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian 2010

  • Chestnut tresses, once close-cut and well-kempt, fall almost to his shoulders which slump in ressentiment:* to every hair however stray, those shoulders seem to say, Halt!

    wine maker 2010

  • Wearing close-cut jeans, an untucked white shirt, and chocolate loafers without socks, he had that elegantly disheveled Italian look down.

    Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

  •   Our Spartan, close-cut lawn and bone-white house looked huge and empty next door.

    The Boundary Line 2009

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