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  • If you wear oxford-cloth dress shirts, try leaving the buttons on the collar unbuttoned, and casually roll up the sleeves.

    Jazz Pianist Seeks Style Teri Agins 2011

  • Even surrounded by stethoscopes and harsh aqua scrubs, I could remember how he always unbuttoned the top button of his oxford-cloth shirt and loosened his tie, as if it was an invitation, a taunt asking me to undo everything else.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • Even surrounded by stethoscopes and harsh aqua scrubs, I could remember how he always unbuttoned the top button of his oxford-cloth shirt and loosened his tie, as if it was an invitation, a taunt asking me to undo everything else.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • After washing down two of the aforementioned Norco with a slug of tap water, Skip changed into a clean pair of chinos and a freshly laundered by Anna! blue oxford-cloth shirt, and retrieved the kidney holster containing his 9mm Beretta Parabellum from the shoe box on the top shelf of his closet before returning to the kitchen.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After washing down two of the aforementioned Norco with a slug of tap water, Skip changed into a clean pair of chinos and a freshly laundered by Anna! blue oxford-cloth shirt, and retrieved the kidney holster containing his 9mm Beretta Parabellum from the shoe box on the top shelf of his closet before returning to the kitchen.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After washing down two of the aforementioned Norco with a slug of tap water, Skip changed into a clean pair of chinos and a freshly laundered by Anna! blue oxford-cloth shirt, and retrieved the kidney holster containing his 9mm Beretta Parabellum from the shoe box on the top shelf of his closet before returning to the kitchen.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After washing down two of the aforementioned Norco with a slug of tap water, Skip changed into a clean pair of chinos and a freshly laundered by Anna! blue oxford-cloth shirt, and retrieved the kidney holster containing his 9mm Beretta Parabellum from the shoe box on the top shelf of his closet before returning to the kitchen.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • He may have to answer to what he was wearing at 3: 15 a.m. (reportedly, just a long oxford-cloth shirt) and whether, a few hours later, he tried to avoid the police who wanted to question him about the incident in Palm Beach, where his nephew is charged with rape.

    Sobering Times 2008

  • Smaller in stature and softer in affect than he appears on his program, Mr. Vayerchuk was wearing an untucked, oversize striped Ted Baker oxford-cloth shirt, not unlike the ones worn by 20-something traders to bars in Murray Hill.

    Gary Vaynerchuk, the Oeno-trepreneur 2008

  • His conservative oxford-cloth shirt was open at the throat, and his bark brown hair waved around his sharp-featured face and brushed the back of his collar.

    The Hollow Roberts, Nora 2008

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