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...Shameless hawkers in the Gare du Nord sold what they said were scraps of cloth from her trousseau...
Little swatches of cloth, in gay colors and designs, reached the U. S. last week from Italy, accompanied by such explanations as: " 'Wooden overcoats' for live Fascists the rage this season.'' Some of the samples resembled wool or flannel, others mercerized cotton. All were specimens of Sniafiocco, a textile made from wood pulp and lately developed by engineers of Italy's big Snia Viscosa, makers of artificial silk...
...fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton (7 lire against 5.50 per kilo) Sniafiocco textiles cost less than cotton cloth (3 to 8 lire against 10 to 15 lire per metre). Sniafiocco fabrics of varying texture and appearance can be made by admixing small amounts of wool or hemp...
Contract pressing ruins clothes. Every time your suit is pressed, it soaks in the dirt, shrinks the cloth, and rubs off the nap. G. M. Brown, Boylston Street, opposite the P. O. Building, has a ticket arrangement, six pieces pressed for $1.00--whenever they need...
...indeed. Il Duce's knees would bend perforce to the Muse as he passed through the five-foot door to the sword-hung study where the Poet, in cloth of gold and purple velvet, summons servants garbed like monks from their surrounding "cells." D'Annunzio might permit so distinguished a guest to enter his sacred Adriatic Room, lined with stalls from an abandoned church. He would surely show Il Duce where he spends his days of solitary contemplation, the chamois-lined Chamber of the Leper which it sometimes pleases him to call the Cell of Pure Dreams. Here...