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tux•e•do n. The only piece of rented clothing most men will ever have to wear. Considering that it is synonymous with formal wear today, its hard to believe that the tuxedo began life as a casual alternative, but such was the nineteenth century, the era of uncomfortable fashion. While much is made of the way women had to truss themselves up, men didnt have it easy either. They wore shirts with detachable col

lim•er•ick n. A kind of poem, never serious, usu. obscene. If toponymity has a favored style of poetry, it is not the lyric but the limerick, which, beyond being named for a county in Ireland, usually has a toponym at the end of the first line to be rhymingly riffed off of. The master of the limerick form was Edward Lear, a superb zoological draftsman and ethereal painter of Eastern landscapes who is, ironic

fez n. 1. A pillbox-like hat, but taller and tapering; often made of red felt, often with a tassel. 2. A late, lamented New York bar. The fez, though now purely quaint, has been a symbol of both modernism and backwardness. Although the shape of the hat is ancient, the fez proper dates to an 1826 law by Ottoman emperor Mahmud II that mandated its use among his male subjects. The emperors hope was that the fez would suppl