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Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Leather Turns Soft and Sexy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise and purple. The thinness of the leather and the satiny texture are due mainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Leather Turns Soft and Sexy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Garfield products, books and the strip have grossed over $15 million already this year (the royalty percentage is split fifty-fifty with United Feature). To coordinate Garfield spinoffs, Davis founded Paws, Inc. Garfield's poultry-stuffed grin now adorns pottery, linen, stationery, luggage, maternity clothing, jewelry, beer steins, toothbrush holders, pillows, chimney stockings, diaries, catnip bags, wastebaskets and slumberbags. Garfield's visage is even silk-screened on women's panties. Many of the items carry historic Garfield utterings like, "I never met a lasagna I didn't like"; or "Cats don't ask. Cats take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Kead Play Widener Committee Loeb Ex Costume Designer, Dutchman Winthrop Drama Society, Dirty Linen Lowell Drama Society What the Butler Saw Leverett Arts Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR 1982 CLASS MARSHAL | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

Kead Play Widener Committee Loeb Ex Costume Designer, Dutchman Winthrop Drama Society Dirty Linen Lowell Drama Society What the Butler Saw Leverett Arts Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE IN YOUR HOUSE DINING HALL | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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