Bursting from a buttoned-down nation, Branson brought a spirit of rebellious adventure to making money.
Not a sports coat but a buttoned suit with a starched white shirt and a pinned tie meant something to her.
Aniston plays Sue, a buttoned-down travelling saleswoman (she deals in decorative art), whose obsessions over charitable causes help spare her any emotional self-involvement.
If your tie has a tendency to float to the left or the right, a buttoned jacket will help center and anchor it.
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The women's version would have a slightly longer, more flattering sleeve and a lengthier buttoned placket.
Keeping a jacket buttoned can also help cover up any problems you may be having with your tie.
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No big deal, to each their own, but it does seem a little buttoned-up for the party where all the cool kids hang out.
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TEDActive attracts a less buttoned-up, more diverse audience (35 countries are now represented) eager to brainstorm, dream, doodle, debate, and engage late into the desert night.
Berkowitz often seems to make Casual Friday a week-long affair and attended in a loosely buttoned blue shirt, his thin hair, brushed straight back, nearly fell to his shoulders.
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Over them he buttoned a cuff-frayed and graying black cassock with its faint stink of him, waisted it with a hand-wide black cincture, snapped on a starched white Roman collar, and laced on his ankle-high black walking shoes.
At a central office, his buttoned-up assistant Maria (a fan of 'melodic death metal') leads us to him.
He wore suspenders that kept his trousers hiked high on his waist, and a midnight blue Italian suit jacket draped cape-like over a starched white shirt, which was tieless and buttoned up to a very prominent Adam's apple.
Though educated at America's most elegant schools, he chewed gum during interviews (spitting out pieces when they lost their flavour), his shirt was often mis-buttoned, and a wide gap yawned between his socks and his trousers.
Her designers set out to address her pet peeves: sashes that fall off robes (hers are buttoned on like in a vintage couture jacket), pants and sleeves that are too long (hers are designed to be cuffed), and pajama bottoms with bulky ties that are uncomfortable to sleep on (hers sit below the waist and have flat fronts and elastic backs).
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He didn't seem like the type, a nerdy teen with oversized dress shirts buttoned to the top.
He then issued a simple edict: Each unit had to create "demonstrably superior products" that could achieve "above-market growth rates" "This is not a strategy story, " says the buttoned-down Davis in his London office.
"We should have started with a small order to get the operational side buttoned down, " concedes Leffler, 34.
Eva turned and saw Harley in the shelter of the porch behind her, his coat buttoned up to the neck, a thick woollen crew cap pulled down over his ears.
The year following publication, Hodgman's buttoned-up visage scored him a spot as the Windows-powered antagonist to Justin Long's Mac, a white backgrounded ad campaign that generated a seemingly endless parade of 30-second spots.
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The move was the first step in the Chicago native's evolution from buttoned-down banker to proprietor of a modern art gallery bearing his name.
Third is Mr. Met, part of the team's efforts to market a family-friendly image to contrast itself with the buttoned-down Yankees.
With his spirit as buttoned down as his shirts, Auteuil offers a startling portrayal of failure, never hamming it up for the sake of our compassion.
Morgan Stanley ( MS - news - people ) and the other at a Japanese insurance company where the atmosphere was formal and buttoned down.
In his buttoned-down shirt and tie, with a tense look on his face, he sits in a line of musicians, all looking joyful, all dressed in traditional African clothes or T-shirts and jeans.
At 42, still bearlike and buttoned-up, he looks slightly grizzled, a man in a hurry.
FKM, in turn, was a corporate shop, led by the structured and far more buttoned-up Scott Brown, who told us early on how he had been burdened with the task of essentially saving the agency from irrelevance a year prior.
As a National League expansion franchise whose original core audience was comprised of recently abandoned fans of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mets set out to distinguish themselves as a fun, family-oriented alternative to the corporate, buttoned down Yankees.
The West may be "kicking butt, " as Forbes ASAP put it last summer (click here to read that article), but the folks west of the Mississippi still have a long way to go before they catch up with their buttoned-down brethren on the East Coast.
The combative William could use a little mellowing, but maybe he has been good for the buttoned-down company.
His fashion styles -- wearing a watch over the cuff of his shirts and button-down collars never buttoned -- became trends and the paparazzi would trail him from the French Riviera to Swiss ski resorts.
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