Word: garments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says. "There were definite class distinctions depending on where you lived. People next to the park who got a breeze in summer were considered wealthy. All of our rooms faced walls or the backs of houses." Simon's father Irving, like the father in the trilogy, worked in the garment industry. Recalls Simon: "Like Willy Loman, he learned to ingratiate himself with his customers. He wasn't a particularly bright man and had only a grade-school education. I remember him as being a great laugher, a great audience...
...events where students can get their party on. Nor is Petrich a stranger to the pages of FM. She designs her own clothes, and she won FM’s Project Runway Challenge by constructing a sassy backless dress and matching jacket out of less than $8 worth of Garment District trash-turned-treasure. Post-graduation, Petrich hopes to work creatively, although she isn’t sure how. “I’m a little bit all over the place,” she says, “but I’m definitely not worried about...
...other hand, girls’ schools have created fertile learning spaces for their students. Girls from single sex institutions are more likely to study math and science, to study advanced placement subjects, and to study, period. Presumably they spend less time attending to grooming and garment selection. (According to one survey, girls at a single sex school estimated they saved 45 minutes a day when they began attending a single sex school and wearing uniforms...
Until recently, the only garment ever made specifically for me was a dowdy macram 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 crmes de menthe and 40 or so cigarettes. Had she lived to be 100 instead of 75, she still would not have finished...
...involved besides the basic sleeve and collar. That's because the tailors in Pink's Ireland shop start with their regular retail-base model and then build out with the customized choices. It's like Pimp My Shirt. But since I was interested in finding someone to make a garment that hugged my contours as well as satisfied my whims, I headed to Seize sur Vingt, a small men's boutique that promised to make me a shirt from scratch...