Word: aproned
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...strip mall may look like a relic of the past, with its clay tiles, ornate sidings and those Chinese New Year red balloons, but like much in China, it's spanking new. Yet relics of the past are good business here. In one of the mall's countless stores, apron-clad Zhang Lijie is chipping away the rock around a 120 million-year-old fish fossil that she plans to sell for $3. Zhang, 38, went from selling vegetables a decade ago to hawking fossils on a street corners. Now, she owns her own store, The Treasure Mansion, which stocks...
...impoverished orphan raised by nuns (and, in a somewhat prescient plot point for a play more than a decade old, molested by priests), Tommy, who works as a waiter, gets engaged to Emma after knowing her for three weeks. Grace hires him, complete with skirt and apron, to replace an absent maid—both in order to help him out financially and to get to know him better. Unfortunately for Emma, he becomes more enamored of Todd, his uniform, and his role as a maid, in that order, than...
...unattractive, ever evolving characters called Uglydolls?each accompanied by a quirky, amusing narrative?have plopped down at the forefront of the designer-toy movement. The dolls' creators, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, are themselves outsiders in a nearly monopolized corporate toy industry. Their first doll, a snaggle-toothed, apron-donning orange blob named Wage who, the story goes, works at a grocery store and lives for chocolate-chip-cookie dough, was born in 2001 not as a pop-culture collectible but as a love letter turned art project...
...reconstruction or refashioning, in which parts of different pieces of clothing are sewn together to make a one-of-a-kind T shirt, skirt or jacket. Leslie Kinson, 19, a sophomore at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, says she cut out a cross-stitch pattern from an old apron and combined it with lace doilies and an embroidered pink fabric to make a knee-length skirt. Maria Azarraga, 18, who lives in Leesburg, Ga., sewed together parts of a panda-print sweater she bought on eBay with a second sweater from Goodwill and some faux white fur she found...
...expensive for me. I’m just a big fan of it existing,” he says. Besides shirts, Johnny also sells pants, underwear, and bags in a bakery-themed boutique. The clothes are displayed on stainless steel baking trays and in antique refrigerators, and apron-wearing employees—some are preppy, otheres sport nose rings—stuff purchases into bakery boxes. What separates Johnny Cupcakes from vanilla t-shirt shops is the rareness of its merchandise: all shirts are limited edition and sold chiefly at the single Johnny Cupcakes store and website. Signature styles include...