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...example, Winthrop House threw "Thropstock" as a preview of Yardfest. With the dining hall closed for brunch, residents enjoyed pizza and cotton candy along with games in the courtyard...
...there?s any doubt, remember the eyewitness account of Jason Bissey who lives next door to the house where the Duke party occurred: "One guy yelled at her, ?... Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt?" - a cleverly subtle racist jab from one of America?s best-educated college students...
...want it to be a business model that people will follow. People want fair trade, but they don't want hair shirts," says Hewson, who is involved in Edun Live, a project that aims to provide immediate job growth in African communities through a merchandising program selling organic cotton T shirts for use as promotional items...
...BREAK After designing couture in Paris, Loudermilk returned to the U.S. to start a line of clothing that would help the environment and "do more than feed the female ego." She developed a high-end T shirt line made of organic cotton, which she sold in Europe. "People were really into what we were doing then," she says. "There was a real void in the market." She calls her customer a "metro-naturalist: someone who is artistic and urban, self-expressive and makes choices out of the norm...
Last year, to much fanfare, Whole Foods launched a lifestyle section in its Whole Body department offering organic adult and baby clothing, towels, sheets (cotton is more heavily sprayed with pesticide than any other crop) and vegan shoes. That area, however, always seems emptier than the rest of the store. But Whole Foods may simply be repeating an experience it has encountered many times in its 26-year existence: landing on an idea that is ahead of its time and then waiting around as the world catches...