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Leave it to the fashion world to make bikinis out of leather. But these sexy little swimsuits are cut from a material that's more apropos for water wear than you might think: tanned, dyed salmon skin. Soft, smooth and lightweight, this particular form of "sea leather" has a natural elasticity that won't sag after a dip. It also gets the green seal of approval; it's made from commercial fish skins that usually get tossed or turned into chicken feed. The suits are part of a full line of fish-leather apparel (including jackets, skirts and sandals) introduced...
...This leather desk diary, illustrated with cartoons from the New Yorker, comes in navy or red, and you can have a name stamped on the front cover. Cartoonbank.com also offers framed prints of the highbrow doodle of your choice...
...models parading across this stylish site's home page will put you right in the mood--to spend two or three bills on boots. Click to zoom in on these patent-leather Stand Ups, and you'll get a much better view of the front zipper...
...definitely going around." Watching the taping from the wings, though, one hardly notices. Spears sure looks hearty enough, prancing up and down the stage at Manhattan's Gotham Hall, lip-synching songs from In the Zone while peeling off layer after layer of ever-tighter clothing. Her eight leather-clad backup dancers seem pretty robust too, particularly in a routine for a tune called Toxic, during which they blindfold Spears, roll her around the studio on an ottoman and run their hands - among other things - over her half-naked body. (Come to think of it, that guy who licked Spears...
...DIED. R.M. WILLIAMS, 95, iconic cattleman of the Australian bush whose leather-goods and clothing company became a global business empire; near Toowoomba, Queensland. Williams worked as a gold prospector and ranch hand before he began making elastic-sided boots in a shed in the 1930s. He became a multimillionaire but remained a rugged outdoorsman. At the age of 70, Williams finished first in a 250-kilometer horse race in Queensland...