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When did story stop meaning a tale (as in storybook) and start meaning outfit (as in fashion)
You can't look at a clothes catalogue (and I don't often) without seeing "a story in soft grey" or any concoction of clothes described as a story. Has anyone else noticed this. is it just the latest marketing-speak.
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maybe we should blame Rod Stewart for this...
("Every Picture Tells a Story")
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The fashion use seems to be marketspeak, as you say.
But another more established use is just as puzzling to me... When did it start referring to a level of a building (as in "The office is two stories up.")?
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every picture tells a story! (who knew?) from American Heritage Dictionary (AHD): 1. A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent levels. 2. The set of rooms on the same level of a building. [Middle English storie, story, from Medieval Latin historia, picture, story (probably from painted windows or sculpture on the front of buildings) http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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Interestingly, for us non-Americans, this word is spelled with an extra 'e', as in single-storeyed building. Anyone know when or why? My Shorter Oxford just notes 'story' in this sense as 'earlier'.
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> maybe we should blame Rod Stewart for this...
well Maggie may
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Dear jmh: I am amazed that the style writes could be satisfied with such a pedestrian word as "story" when the could have called it a "symphony" "a poem" "a statement" except that all of those have already been worn out. Figuratively that is.
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Gosh Bill, this was well buried, I'd forgotten the discussion. you are quite right, story is such a dull word to use, I'm sure that they could do better.
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Dear jmh: I didn't resurrect this thread. What I know about fashion reporting you could comfortably put in your eye. It had no reply, so fool that I am, I rushed in.
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