Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fabric purists, and women whose jobs permit a casual approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...
Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...
...those of us who are not trapped by a past that has to be continually defended, know things are different. The whole context of government has changed, as well as the social fabric...
...bears many characteristics of the beginning of a new age. The supply-side tonic in America and the repressive policies on display in Poland may prove but two manifestations of a failure to come to grips with the future by resorting to methods of the past. The social fabric both East and West is straining at the seams, and the apparent desire to impose order where there is none is evidence of a disturbing unwillingness to confront forces for change...
...roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric fans. Then a heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair...