Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karl Spilhaus shops with a mission. His busy hands rake through the winter- coat racks, expertly fingering the fabric as he examines the labels and checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
...fact, Thomas had a very strong role model in Janice, her mother. Most of the skaters have strong mothers, and most of the mothers have mink coats. "But my mother's not a rink mom," says Debi. "She works." She's a programmer-analyst in California's Silicon Valley, divorced from Debi's father since 1974. "A coach once advised Mom to rent a fur coat just for the nationals, but I did all right that year without the fur coat." Janice Thomas laughs and says, "They tell you it's to attract sponsorship money, as well as to look...
...achieve it." Denise loves it. In fact virtually all the kids seem to revel in the style of the man they privately call "Crazy Joe." More than a few look to him for help: a Hispanic girl approaches to whisper that she needs a winter coat. "I'll get you one," vows the principal, scribbling her name...
...with respect and worn on appropriate occasions only." This ruled out sporting one on the subway, at the fish market, over sweat pants or before 6 p.m. Tradition further dictated that unless she was a starlet or worse, a woman waited for her husband to present her with a coat on her 50th birthday, to mark her arrival as a Matron...
...really bothered me, I would be a vegetarian." An economic downturn, retailers fear, might do more to depress the market. But so far, there seems little cause for alarm. As Vujosevic says about her priorities as she searches for her blue fox: "It was either going to be a coat or a co-op." No contest there...