Word: hemming
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...Harvard Vestis Council, does costuming for Harvard theater, and is a Harvard fashion show regular. But she usually has ample time and a heftier budget. For this dress, Baird needs to cut some corners—and she’s unlikely to have enough time to hem them. Luckily, she finds both navy and gold lycra, which conveniently don’t fray and stretch to allow “mistake room” for fitting on the fly. Armed with fabric, cheap thread and a leftover dollar (“for emergencies”), Baird rushes...
...fashion?' And, boy, was I determined. And I showed him. And I've lived to regret it," she says, and then tops the statement off with a gleeful laugh. Wang is kidding, of course. Her sharp, native--New Yorker wit and sarcasm don't stay hidden under the hem for long. "I say things like this, and people take it and say, 'Vera hates fashion.' And I'm trying to be funny, because if you don't laugh, you're going to keel over...
DEFINITION hem-line the-o-ry n. A hypothesis that the length of hemlines predicts how well the U.S. stock market will do--the shorter hemlines are, the better the economy will...
...would any businesses want to set up shop in Hem? First off, it was one of 100 French municipalities accorded a tax-free status under its urban renewal project. It's part of a $45 billion national program to finance the renaissance of France's most blighted suburbs - one to which 380 towns that are home to 2.4 million people have thus far signed up. Those with tax-exempt status like Hem can lure businesses with an array of financial incentives, including state underwriting of most employer-paid social charges on salaries paid to local hires...
...they don't-if people won't live together anymore-none of this will work," Vercamer says soberly, though clearly convinced re-establishing integration of neighbors of differing classes and colors can work. "All these divisions are artificial. This is just as much France as central Lille is." Some Hem residents, meanwhile, can't imagine anyone hesitating a move to the ?hood. "I've lived here for 47 years, and I'd never leave," says a wild-haired redhead named Murielle, whose row house is being entirely refurbished. "Especially now that things are looking...