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Until recently, the only garment ever made specifically for me was a dowdy macramé sweater scarred with Newport Light burns. Actually, it wasn't a sweater?just a sleeve, constructed over many years with a characteristic mix of love and laziness by my grandmother, a woman who believed that all children needed one sweater knitted just for them but who also used knitting as an instant soporific after M*A*S*H repeats, a few crèmes de menthe and 40 or so cigarettes. Had she lived to be 100 instead of 75, she still would not have finished...
...scholar or a glowering warrior with his turban like a black storm cloud overhead. When a starstruck woman requested the abaya, or robe, that he wore during the war, Nasrallah obliged, and since then TV crews have been following the woman across Lebanon as she displays this now holy garment for other faithful fans...
...from ten top designers.Although the variety of designers is impressive, it comes at the expense of the exhibit’s ability to offer a coherent vision of where fashion is today.Haute couture, to make the distinction, is the name given to a one-of-a-kind, hand-made garment that can cost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ready-to-wear clothing, on the other hand, is manufactured in all sizes and available for retail purchase.A strength of the exhibit overall is the fashion show footage playing alongside each designer’s collection. Seeing the clothes...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...
...Vietnamese leaders must be asking a similar question: now that the country is a WTO member, will it be treated with fairness by the international trading community? By joining the WTO, Vietnam hopes to become free from trade restrictions such as garment quotas that in the past have constrained its exports to the U.S. and Europe. Textile manufacturing employs 2 million Vietnamese and is the country's largest export earner after crude oil. But Vietnam's trade relations with the West have sometimes been prickly. The U.S. in recent years has imposed antidumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp and catfish...