Word: knitting
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...hair more frequently flows long, shoes tend to be clogs, jeans are fringed at the bottom, bras are less common than in they are in the square. Some even knit their own clothes from knitting company's samples. But remnants of the Co-op's hippie days extend beyond fashion and decor. Above the door reads, "The Center for High-Energy Metaphysics." According to Co-op legend, the sign was added in the mid 70's after a drug bust. Entrepreneurial Co-opers had a marijuana farm on the roof of "05," the smaller Co-op house on Mass...
Former President of the Board of Overseers Charlotte P. Armstrong calls the group "a very close-knit body...
...Saturday afternoon, James R. Salzmann '02 sits down to brunch in pressed khakis, a button-down shirt, and a cable-knit sweater--hardly the expected image of a former president of the Perspective, Harvard's liberal campus monthly magazine...
...Xers are already trying to turn back the clock. Weary of staring at computer screens all day and bored with the monochrome sweater sets at Banana Republic, they have turned to an old craft for satisfaction. Four million people, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, began knitting last year alone, according to the Craft Yarn Council of America. A recent "Knit Out" in New York drew 7,000 people to check out the latest in fashions and supplies, more than double the previous year. Hundreds of websites, such as eknitting.com offer lessons, patterns and books...
...Knitterie Parisienne, a shop in Los Angeles that's popular enough to merit a publicist, is packed with 13,000 yarns in everything from chenille to silk to cashmere. "The difference today is in the fabrics," says Edith Eig, owner of the shop. "People used to knit with wool because they didn't have the choice. Today you have every choice imaginable." The selection doesn't come cheap. A 10-g ball of angora costs about $15. Sound fair? Well, consider that 35 balls are needed for an average angora sweater...