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Some stores and showrooms have "invisible glass" windows, but these are parabolic panes such that reflections are bent downward and absorbed in a baffle of black cloth. Glass such as Katharine Blodgett's, which actually obliterates reflection at its surface, could be used as an invisible protection for paintings in galleries and museums. Other possible uses: automobile windshields, shop windows, show cases, cameras, spectacles, telescopes, field glasses...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...These "Heavyweight Overcoats" are made from 35-ounce-per-yard cloth. Stroock & Co. has made a lightweight (20-oz.) vicuña cloth since...
...world's most musical families, the von Trapp family is also one of the world's most self-sufficient. Their Austrian peasant clothes, which they never exchange for citified dress, are all homemade. They even weave some of the cloth themselves. Says ample, athletic Frau von Trapp: ''We are having the time of our lives in God's own country...
...cloth in the water and put it around your head...