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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...
...wave of counterfeiting is a natural consequence of the surging demand for cashmere, which has become the fabric of choice for affluent baby boomers willing to pay for the best. No longer limiting the cloth to coats, sweaters and scarves, designers have come out with cashmere tunics, miniskirts, camisoles and even sweat suits. Ralph Lauren can barely keep his cabled cashmere sweater for men in stock at $625, while Donna Karan's cashmere & bodysuit ($500 to $800) overwhelmingly outsells her less expensive merino-wool outfit...
...start with the fact that it has been decided. I strongly suspect he would never have voted for it in the first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even if it is not reversed, however, Roe could be modified. Like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy could end up as a swing vote, helping to refine the boundaries of the right to abortion, based on changing medical and social circumstances...
DESCRIPTION: Shows exports from Newly Industrialized Countries 1980-1986: color illustrations show tape deck, boot, bolt of fabric...
...compact van, stocked with thousands of solutions, will arrive at your door. A driver- decorator (98% are women) will survey the immediate problems and analyze whether your inclinations are in the formal, casual, transitional or luxurious mode. Then, presto! Out from the van can come decks of fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas for the master suite, perhaps, or a Bruegel...