Sublime

a collective aesthetic that this writer evidently thinks is best described by proper nouns and trademark symbols: Wear-Dated® Acrilan® trousers with Sansabelt® technology, lightweight Orlon® acrylic sweaters, Fortrel® polyester jeans, PERMA-PREST®

(At antique stores, my father bought Victoriana. My mother liked things from her own childhood: the breadboard with a picture of Uncle Sam captioned It’s Patriotic to Slice Your Own; a statue of FDR as boat captain, hands on a ship’s wheel that was also a clock.)