putterings, 583-580
“Like as not he’s puttering round, man fashion,
washing up the supper dishes.” ₁ still
puttering about in characteristic fashion,
debating the policy involved in ₂
aandacht voor het vertoon
external signs ₃
custom cutter, style or
puttering clothes do make the man
always puttering and fuming about trying
from which it will be seen that Spring is intensely practical. ₄
sources :
- Donald D. Garcelon, “Aunt Matilda’s Visitor,” The Harvard Advocate 69:9 (Cambridge, Mass., June 22, 1900) : 141-142
more - from the second of eight public letters from the local newspapers, presented toward the end of James K. Shen, “The Arrest of Chinese in Cleveland,” The Chinese Students’ Monthly 21:3 (January 1926) : 39-54
more - ex Sociological Abstracts 38 (1990) : 1096
entry for Loosveldt, Geert, Aandacht voor het vertoon: stijl of bricolage? (Attention to the External Signs: Style or Puttering?), Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 1989, 10, 3-4, 479-507
more - interview with Samuel H. Spring, Secretary, National Association of Merchant Tailors of America, in “Cleveland Chatter and Cartoons,” in Gentlemen’s Fashions (“Formerly Advanced Fashions and The Custom Cutter”) 8:2 (March 1913) : 82-86
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