inception, pleated, bowler, canister, spaniel, obsequious, brown-nosing. The concept of Pleats Please Issey Miyake is explored through a vast array of texts and images, tracing its journey from inception, through material development, to its public reception.

Courtesy of the Print Collection, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University


3-foot blue canisters of nitro
along a conveyor belt, slow fish
speaking the language of silence.

397
From the Original Picture by John Collett in the possession of Carington Bowles. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs (erased)

Four young ladies in pleated gowns and hats bowl outside a country inn, one just releasing the ball at a set of ninepins. At the other end of the alley, a little girl is ready to set up more pins. Two young ladies stand together on the left beyond the bowler, one offering the other a bowl of snacks. In the center background, another lady leans over a table with wine bottle and glass and blows the foam off a large cannister(?) of beer she holds in her hands. A spaniel watches the bowling from beneath the table. On a large tree in the background, a tally board, halved by a chalk line, shows the marks of two teams. A ball, a tipped pin, and a clay pipe with broken stem lie in the foreground. Surviving impressions includes the date "2 Feb 1779."
33x 25 cm.
Yale Center for British Art (no date, B1970.3.773)
13.7 x 11 cm.
Lewis Walpole Library (numbered 290, no date, 778.1.1.5)

The container was labeled "baby food," but authorities say security personnel became suspicious when the woman who owned the suitcase claimed the canister held pickles.
該密封罐上的標籤寫著是「嬰兒食品」，但當局表示，安全人員之所以起疑，是因為擁有該行李箱的婦女宣稱，罐子裡裝的是醃漬品。
A fire department bomb squad removed the item from the airport and detonated it, discovering the mangoes.
消防部門的一支防爆小組將該物件拿離開機場並且引爆，結果發現（罐子裡面裝的是）芒果。

為了睡醒就能看到艾菲爾鐵塔，心一橫加價把套房升級，超級值回票價！走路就能拜訪諾蘭電影《全面啟動》（Inception）場景、模仿日本天后濱崎步MV的巨星風采，再到知名香水品牌Le Labo，把巴黎香味裝罐收藏帶回家。

The heart that spanielled me at heels.



 For the first time, the story of this revolutionary line of clothing is being told. The concept of Pleats Please Issey Miyake is explored through a vast array of texts and images, tracing its journey from inception, through material development, to its public reception. The explanation of its evolution also includes, also for the first time, a section not only revealing the creation of the original thread — but also the pleating process!

OPINION Two Cheers for Web U! By A. J. JACOBS Take away the dorm rooms, the classroom banter, the brown-nosing, the keg parties and the tuition, and is it still college?

為了睡醒就能看到艾菲爾鐵塔，心一橫加價把套房升級，超級值回票價！走路就能拜訪諾蘭電影《全面啟動》（Inception）場景、模仿日本天后濱崎步MV的巨星風采，再到知名香水品牌Le Labo，把巴黎香味裝罐收藏帶回家。

inception

/ɪnˈsɛpʃn/

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noun

1. the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.

   "she has been on the board since its inception two years ago"

pleat 
noun [C]
a narrow fold in a piece of cloth made by pressing or sewing two parts of the cloth together

pleated 
adjective
a pleated skirt
Close-up of a pleated shade

bowl (ROLL)
verb [I or T]
to roll a ball along a smooth grass or artificial surface during a game

bowl 
noun [C]
a large ball used in the game of bowls

bowling 
noun [U] (UK ALSO tenpin bowling)
a game played inside, in which you roll a heavy ball down a track to try to knock down a group of pins (= tall, thin wooden objects)

canister 
noun [C]
a metal, usually cylindrical, container for gases or dry things:
The police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd.

spaniel
n.

1. Any of several breeds of small-sized to medium-sized dogs, usually having drooping ears, short legs, and a wavy, silky coat.
2. A docile or servile person.

[Middle English spainol, from Old French espaignol, Spaniard, Spanish dog, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniōlus, Spanish, from Hispānia, Spain.]

brown-nose

informal

Definition of brown-nose

noun

• (also brown-noser) an extremely obsequious person: a little brown-noser who wants to make sure I know he’s working on Saturday

verb

[with object]

curry favour with (someone) by acting very obsequiously:academics were brown-nosing the senior faculty [no object]:if I can’t learn to brown-nose, at least I can keep my mouth shut

obsequious

adj.
Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

[Middle English, from Latin obsequiōsus, from obsequium, compliance, from obsequī, to comply : ob-, to; see ob– + sequī, to follow.]

obsequiously ob·se'qui·ous·ly adv.
obsequiousness ob·se'qui·ous·ness n.