Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pioneers and cowboys used the term for their practice of braiding together scraps of leather when they had nothing else to do. In the 1930s, when New Deal foes began using the word for make-work projects, the Boy Scouts also took it as the name for their leather lanyards...
...women have worn animal skins since clothing was invented, but leather clothing was never considered high fashion-unless the fur was left on. Nowadays, however, leather and its nappy obverse, suede, have been transformed into glamorous materials that can be used for any garment, from bikinis to evening wear. Thanks to new techniques, stiff, bulky skins can be cut almost paper-thin and butter-soft. And they are dyed almost any color. As a result, leather will be ubiquitous this spring. Says Vogue Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella: "Suede is the fashion. It is the star of the season...
Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who has been placing increasing emphasis on skins since he first used them in his 1976 collection, explains: "Leather now has sex appeal. The difference between leather and fur is that fur is just a dead animal one carries around, while leather falls and folds on the body to become a second skin...
...lieutenant colonel in the P.L.O.; he controls the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the region of Tyre. At the moment, Colonel Azmi controls his forces from a grass hut on stilts standing over an area bombed out by Israel last summer. The hut is furnished with red leather chairs and a Swedish-modern desk, behind which Colonel Azmi, 40, smokes Winstons and makes pronouncements...
...simple enough. One man's expendable Chinese rug might turn out to be another man's treasure. The result: a primitive system of barter. A cab driver with a can of oil could trade with a café manager for a pound of coffee. A pair of leather boots would get a sack of potatoes, and a bottle of vodka was pure gold. A Warsaw schoolteacher marveled when one enterprising boy in her class announced that he was willing to trade girl's boots that his family had snatched up in the frantic buying binge...