Yes, people did use the word 'gear' for clothes in the 1970s.
Really? All the time, or just about fashionable stuff? Sometimes less is more: had for example the clothes not been described, we would be free to imagine them as something current and appropriate. Black velvet with rosebud sprigs? Just no.
There are problems with Sara Paretsky's V I Warshawski too. Although I'm delighted she now has internet access and a mobile phone, I have great difficulty with Lottie being a doctor at what must now be almost 90.
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Date: 2008-06-27 06:41 am (UTC)Really? All the time, or just about fashionable stuff? Sometimes less is more: had for example the clothes not been described, we would be free to imagine them as something current and appropriate. Black velvet with rosebud sprigs? Just no.
There are problems with Sara Paretsky's V I Warshawski too. Although I'm delighted she now has internet access and a mobile phone, I have great difficulty with Lottie being a doctor at what must now be almost 90.