Ms. Van de Velde helped handle much of the furniture and finishes, choosing to go all white with splashes of color, such as a circular purple chair, a purple-and-gray rug with a tiled pattern and hot pink-and-royal blue wallpaper.

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Highlights included a new wireless Bluetooth offering, as well as new colors for existing models: pink, orange, purple, blue and gray, in addition to the now-ubiquitous red.

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For much of the 20th century, it was custom for Ivy League graduates (and their imitators) to keep at least one "odd jacket" in their wardrobes to wear with khakis, gray flannels or wide-wale corduroys, rather than slim cargo pants, purple chinos or the "winter whites" that are now a trend in Italy.

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