What's so sublime about being on a tropical beach where you know nobody is, you can wear your unattractive, black, one-piece YMCA bathing suit with abandon.

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Cintamani, 36, interrupts the discussion on Singapore's economic environment, drawing attention to two men one in a three-piece black suit, and another in a futuristic-looking white top embellished with silver at its collar and reaching past his knees over skinny white pants with platform shoes and a woman in a white two-piece, loose-fitting suit with silver heels.

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She opens her closet, stands on a chair, and pulls down a box with some uniforms inside: one of the green plaid one-pieces she wore when she was little, a sailor-suit two-piece from later on.

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Strolling in the neighborhood one day, newspaper tucked under my arm, I passed a man, stooped but dignified in a three-piece suit, shuffling in the same direction.

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