Word: linens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloomingdale's, Manhattan's ultra-chic department store: "Often in tough economic times, designers lose their sense of whimsy and feel that women prefer to invest in serious clothing. But this season the clothes are perky and upbeat." Perry Ellis is showing a line of cotton and linen boat-neck tops that can easily slip down on one side to uncover a shoulder, as Jennifer Beals' sweatshirt did in the movie Flashdance...
Expected price range: $50 to $150. Calvin Klein is offering a sleek and sexy new backless sundress ($190). For buyers wanting something a little more modest, Klein has oversize chambray linen shirt dresses ($290) that can be tied tight at the waist or left free to ripple in the wind...
...European would do." Instead of using old fabric, he has, for some time now, been making his own. Currently, he is working with a heavily textured stretch knit that looks like a lava flow, and is trying to decide what to do with an exotic combination of linen backed with Shetland wool that he has aptly dubbed "the I don't know" fabric...
...eight stylishly dressed jurists huddled around a stark, white, rectangular table were sifting through endless snippets of yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after...
...Football League above the objections of George Preston Marshall, who possessed the Redskins and had designs on the South. Marshall imagined a sprawling Southern TV football network with his Redskins installed, in the Confederate sense, as "America's Team." With this in mind, Marshall, who also owned a linen business, had kept the Redskins as white as percale. Shirley Povich of the Washington Post occasionally referred to the team colors as "burgundy, gold and Caucasian...