Word: hopsack
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Bellbottoms, peasant blouses, and velvetine baby doll dresses were the things to bring home in the '60s. Since few could pass up the price of $4.95 to $8.00 a pair, you could never have too many pairs of denim or hopsack Levis. But what students didn't spend on clothes they made up to, in audio equipment. Hot sellers in 1968 were Landberg of America tape decks and the K United Audio dual turntable...
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...Buckle. Bonding has also opened new vistas for hard-to-manage materials. Mohair jackets and coats, infamous for bagging and stretching, can now be stabilized with a simple backing of cotton sheeting or tricot. Loose-weave hopsack and tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching and wrinkling...
...coarse material from England called hopsack will be important again this season. It is woven from a six-ply yarn rather than the two-ply yarn used in most cloth, making a loose but warm weave...
...London a tailor sued Valentine Edward Charles Browne. Viscount Castlerosse, beefy director of London newspapers, for ?75 ($260) for two dinner suits of blue herringbone and blue tropical hopsack, two extra pairs of trousers and six white waistcoats, ordered for wear on his 1932 U. S. visit. Defense: misfit ("only fit for . . . the Zoo"). To the tailor's testimony that his shape was hard to fit and he could not stand still, Lord Castlerosse replied: "I have been in the Guards and I am told I am an expert at standing still." An expert witness called the coats...
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