Over-coats were strewn over chairs and gloves and leather flag pole holsters lay around the floor.

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People tithed in Mercury dimes and buffalo nickels, and pews filled with old men who wore ancient black suit coats over overalls, and young men in short-sleeved dress shirts and clip-on ties.

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The idea of marketing men having more sway over the men in white coats angers some traditionalists.

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These items are very dear, and a 22% value-added tax makes it all the worse. (We rely on packages from home for new winter coats and shoes.) Common over-the-counter medicines, such as aspirin, aren't available without a prescription.

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Those sleeveless coats in punchy yellow and cobalt blue worn over turtleneck knits had many swooning and are bound to be commercial hits.

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Outerwear came in one of two iterations there were oversized, mannish coats (some dipped in glittering crystals, others sprouting feathers at the sleeves), and floor-sweeping duster coats (some with mink trims, others mink all over).

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On a typical graveyard shift, 60 technicians, wearing white lab coats to prevent static electricity from gumming up computer components, hunch over kaput keyboards and screens, fixing them with screwdrivers and color analyzers.

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