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...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...
Donohue will also need to be a "team leader" in an office with a close-knit staff...
...cuts, white short-sleeved shirts and clip-on ties. How did this guy with the disco moustache and the Shaft-era hairdo plan on paying off a satellite? "Somewhere in the Time archives there is probably a memo from [the chairman] saying, 'Who is this guy in the double-knit suit?'" Levin recalled last week. "But I knew I would win. It was the force of the idea...
Eighteen minutes later, D's buddy Brian, a friendly faced guy in a knit cap and a blue North Face jacket, pulls into the parking lot in a Volkswagen. Brian takes you to his apartment, which is nearby. He introduces you to Pee-Wee, a solidly built guy in a FUBU jacket. Turns out both of them were in a hip-hop band with D'Angelo back in grade school...