He is the author of seven books: If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks ( St. Martin's: 1992 ); Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops ( Doubleday: 1994 ); The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances ( Doubleday: 1996 ); Don't Give Up the Ship: Finding My Father While Lost at Sea ( Ballantine: 2002 ); Hatless Jack ( Plume: 2004 ); Drunkard ( Dutton: 2008 ); and You Were Never in Chicago ( University of Chicago Press: 2012 ).

* Ulster coat, a long, loose overcoat made of rough material

All of the clothes Malcolm wears during the film are items he wore or touched the evening before his death, which included his overcoat, his blue rowing sweatshirt and the different layers of his suit.

Everyday dress, worn to most lessons, consists of a white shirt, black silk tie, light grey trousers ( introduced by Barnaby Lenon, and replacing the previously dark grey trousers, as the lighter grey was more traditional having been part of the uniform previously ), black shoes, an optional blue jumper ( sweater ), a dark blue woollen uniform jacket known as a ' bluer ', the option of the school blue and white scarf and dark blue woolen overcoat similar to the bluer on cold days and, notably, the Harrow Hat, often erroneously called a boater, made of varnished straw with a dark blue band.

Dastardly in this series wore old-fashioned racer's gear — a long blue duster overcoat often worn by early motorists, along with long red gloves, and a large striped hat with driving goggles attached, and sporting a handlebar mustache.

* Sharie – She wears an enormous red and blue overcoat so that she can sleep in class, due to having a non-stop life ( of which Mrs. Jewls approves ).

In the anime particularly, she usually wore a blue michiyuki ( overcoat ) worn over a lavender kimono.

For the earliest line that traveled through New Mexico Territory, the Jackass Mail, a San Diego newspaper suggested " ne Sharps rifle and 100 rounds, a Colt and two pounds of lead, a knife, a pair of thick wool pants, a half dozen pairs of thick socks, six undershirts, three overshirts, a wide-awake hat, a cheap sack coat, an overcoat, one pair of blankets in summer and two in winter, gauntlets, needles, pins, a sponge, hair brush, comb, soap, two pairs of thick drawers, and three or four towels.

Steel boiler tubes replaced copper and brass in locomotives for economy and a different pattern of uniform overcoat had to be sourced since the government had commandeered the wool crop.

The pelage of a show animal may be divided into different types of hair, fur or wool with a texture ranging from downy to spiky ; in addition the animal may be single-coated or may have a number of coats, such as an undercoat and a topcoat ( made up of guard hairs ; also called outer coat and, sometimes, overcoat ).

In 1945, an overcoat ( wool and fully lined ) 18 coupons ; a man's suit 26-29 ( according to lining ); men's shoes 9, women's shoes 7 ; woollen dress 11.

My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.

" Wyatt said I " took my pistol, which I had in my hand, under my coat, and put it in my overcoat pocket.

To begin with, every one must buy this book for the following aesthetic reasons: First, because I know where there is the cutest cloth of gold dress for only $ 300 in a store on Forty-second Street, and, also, if enough people buy it where there is a platinum ring with a complete circlet, and, also, if loads of people buy it my husband needs a new winter overcoat, although the one he has has done well enough for the last three years ...

" Gentlemen ," said André, who thought they were Tories because one was wearing a Hessian soldier's overcoat, " I hope you belong to our party.

The full length overcoat was once again popularised by the use during World War I of the trench coat.

I was taken by the explosions, I saw the carriage flew to pieces ... My overcoat was strewn with splinters of wood all around, it was torn and burnt, there was blood on my face ...

His body was found fully clothed, with a hat, overcoat and gloves, the next morning by a River House employee on a third-floor balcony.

It was reported that Davis put his wife's overcoat over his shoulders while fleeing, inspiring caricatures that portrayed him as having disguised himself as a woman while trying to avoid capture.

The overcoat was secured to the mannequin by a chain, a fact the defendant first discovered when the chain drew taut.

She brought with her the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials.

After about 1810 the fit of the waistcoat became shorter and tighter, becoming much more secondary to the frock-coat overcoat and almost counting as an undergarment, although its popularity was larger than ever.

He parked in a secluded spot, tossed his overcoat onto the barbed wire topping a fence, then scampered over .... Harveyplan was to scratch his signature on ' objects that could not possibly have been brought to the site by someone else ,' according to a statement later given by an off-duty guard who accompanied him .... But seconds after Harvey hit the ground, security officers spotted him .... Harvey ran until, caught in a Jeep's headlights, he tripped and fell.

The garments were invented by Charles de L ' Orme in 1619 ; they were first used in Paris, but later spread to be used throughout Europe The protective suit consisted of a heavy fabric overcoat that was waxed, a mask of glassed eye openings and a cone shaped like a beak to hold scented substances and straw.

Adams was pressured to resign in 1958, when a House subcommittee revealed Adams had accepted an expensive vicuña overcoat and oriental rug from Bernard Goldfine, a Boston textile manufacturer who was being investigated for Federal Trade Commission violations.

Kojak usually carried it in the front right pocket of his overcoat or suit jacket, or he carried it in his hand as he approached a scene where he was expecting danger.

He reached inside the overcoat pocket, but was unable to remove the gun.

Mrs. Verloc confirms that it was Stevie's overcoat, and that she had written the address.

He was wearing a deer-stalker hat and dark overcoat.

That day, a journalist, Erich Eisner, was walking his dog on the museum grounds when he noticed a man who seemed out of place in a nice overcoat, surveying the museum.

Just as in Italian, although евро could have been declined as a regular neuter noun, it was made indeclinable like many neutral loanwords ending in a vowel: бюро bureau, office, writing-desk, пальто overcoat, кофе coffee, бордо Bordeaux wine, claret etc.

Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot was criticised for supposedly wearing a donkey jacket at a Remembrance Day wreath laying ceremony, and he was shown wearing one on several covers of the satirical magazine Private Eye ; it was in actuality a " very expensive short overcoat " chosen by his wife.

Previous to this, Taylor realised that wherever he went he was being referred to as a " black devil " because of the overcoat he wore.

His first criminal conviction was recorded in March 1906 at age 17 when he was sentenced to 21 days imprisonment for the theft of a ' fly front grey Melton cloth overcoat '.

In fiber optics, a cladding mode is a mode that is confined to the cladding of an optical fiber by virtue of the fact that the cladding has a higher refractive index than the surrounding medium, which is either air or the primary polymer overcoat.

" He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars.

Soon after, the sceptical Cantlemere shows up at Holmes's rooms, and Holmes plays a practical joke on him by slipping the Mazarin Stone into his overcoat pocket, humorously suggesting that Cantlemere is the fence.

* C. Stories where a girl is met at some place of entertainment, e. g., dance, instead of on the road ; she leaves some token ( often the overcoat she borrowed from the motorist ) on her grave by way of corroborating the experience and her identity.

However, other women also fulfill the government requirements by wearing a combination of a headscarf and a long overcoat which conceals her arms and legs.

The overcoat is known by a French word, manteau.

This dhikr is coupled with physical exertions of movement, specifically dancing and whirling, in order to reach a state assumed by outsiders to be one of " ecstatic trances " Among the Mevlevi order, the practice of dhikr is performed in a traditional dress: a tennure, a sleeveless white frock, the destegul, a long sleeved jacket, a belt, and a black overcoat or khirqa to be removed before the whirling begins.

Napoleon, mounted, campaigning in France in 1814, wearing a grey overcoat, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.

The typical bōsōzoku member is often depicted in a uniform consisting of a jumpsuit like those worn by manual laborers or a tokkō-fuku ( 特攻服 ), a type of military issued overcoat with kanji slogans usually worn open with no shirt underneath showing off their bandaged torsos and baggy matching pants tucked inside tall boots.

MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn responded to criticism of the scheduling, which was done to accommodate NBC television, by attending the game without an overcoat despite bitterly cold nighttime weather.

Sometimes, modern lounge suit coats with an unusually long skirt are referred to by ready-to-wear makers as a ' frock coat ' but these lack the waist seam, resulting in the fuller drape more typical of a modern overcoat or a lounge suit jacket.

* A copy, wearing a white overcoat, who captures and kisses Helo before being shot by Sharon Agathon.

( Both are distinguished by an unusual overcoat in which they are always dressed ).

Busby's family were reportedly " incensed " by Scott's portrayal, with Busby's son commenting that his father's character " had the appearance of a gangster rather than a football manager " and wore an overcoat and trilby hat instead of a tracksuit, despite Busby famously being the first " tracksuit " manager of the post-World War II era ).

Po is a generic term referring to an outer robe or overcoat, which was worn mostly by men since the Goryeo period until the Joseon period.