Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cows, after some initial doubts and kicks, seem happy with their new hoofwear. Will a Burberry's mackintosh be the next trendy garment for the pasture...
Whether she will succeed with HG is not yet clear. Critics who are concerned that she is moving the magazine away from design and into fashion now refer to it as House & Garment. Wintour has little affection for the traditional, glossy spreads of uninhabited interiors so dear to many subscribers. Her first week on the job, she summarily rejected some $2 million worth of inventoried photos and articles. "She destroyed House & Garden in 2 1/2 days," bristles a former editor who was fired shortly after Wintour arrived. Wintour explains that rather than showing "empty rooms," she prefers to bring...
...electorate's real concerns: what these candidates stand for, what's behind the arcane nomination process and what issues are going unaddressed." Barrett deals with those concerns every week, but he still relishes the carnival. Since his trusty suitcase let him down, Barrett has made do with a bedraggled garment bag "that doesn't quite fit into either the overhead bin or the space beneath the seat." It should at least see him through this week's Illinois primary...
...Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness. But the current televised spectacle of kaffiyeh-wearing rebels playing hob with the Israeli army gives the scarves...
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...