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Jumper: Sweater—but can be both knit or jersey...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Australian Slang from A to Zed | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...Secretaries in the past, the extraordinary recent performance of Donald Evans before the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing set a new low. What's more, Evans' speech turned out to be a precursor to action: in mid-November the Administration imposed quotas on Chinese-made bathrobes, bras and knit fabrics. Washington said it was merely enforcing a safeguard provision that China had already agreed to, though that was 2.7 million lost jobs ago. Now the fragile recovery of the global economy--and Washington's burgeoning partnership with Beijing--has been imperiled for no good reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knitpicking the Chinese | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...purely one of aesthetics: it is a truth universally acknowledged by those in the know that to wear a Christmas tree across your chest and look classy at the same time is an impossibility. The bottom line? For a cool yule, stick to the basic cable knit...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Bad Trend Alert! | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

Despite their divergent performances, the two rappers complement each other well. “[Def Jux] is a tight-knit community,” Aesop concedes—though he rejects the idea that El-P’s brand of gloomy industrial beats set the tone. “All the artists [on Def Jux] have very different sounds. Possibly there’s a similar mentality; everyone wants to make their own music...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aesop Rocks With ‘Bazooka Tooth’ Tour | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...view them as nothing more than practical necessities. I like to develop relationships with what I wear. Clothes are what we live in, and when I’m breaking in a new sweater, making it my own, I like to think of the Irish patterns I used to knit when I was younger. I read with fascination about the history of these cable patterns: each one belonged to a particular clan. They wore these patterns not to much to display their family identity—although doubtless that was part of it—but primarily to feel connected...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, | Title: Searching For the Right Fit | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

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