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...bonnet. By the end of the hour she has finished sewing the rectangle of fabric that will become a thick, ruff-like collar that supports the back of the model’s neck. At 5 p.m., Hays sets down her partially-finished pieces and breaks out the lint roller. A layer of white dust, the remnants of the sacrificial teddy bear, covers everything in the room. The design must be clean so it can be fitted to the model, who is soon to arrive. Hays and her model arrive at the Sanctum in the nick of time, the latter...
...right after it had become co-ed. It was sort of closed off in many different ways, stuck in 1953,” she says.She tells the story of a colleague at Princeton who said he would write a paper on the taxation of belly button lint if it would get him published.“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I wouldn’t’,” she says.Goldin says that, as a woman, she was not as competitive as her male colleagues.“There was a time when I probably...
...Things get interesting when you get past the top ten "fear of" searches to the very long list of very individual and odd concerns. Among the unusual fears - such as: feet, happiness, lint, ceiling fans or even the "fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth" - lives an interesting pattern. Sifting through over 1500 "fear of" searches in the last 12 weeks there are two opposites that play out repeatedly: we're afraid of being isolated ("fear of being alone") almost as much as we are of making a connection ("fear of intimacy...
Like all great merchants, Drexler is a relentless store walker, picking up details on operations, fashion and consumer behavior like so much lint. "You can get numbers, but there's no flavor," says Drexler, who fell in love with retail during a summer job at the now defunct Abraham & Straus department store exactly because he wasn't deskbound. After stints at Bloomingdale's and Macy's, he became ceo of Ann Taylor and revived the company, which got the attention of Gap founder Donald Fisher. It has all contributed to an almost eerie command of what's happening around...
...conditioned for the WWF (that’s World Wrestling Federation, not World Wildlife Fund)—thrown from wall to wall, often bouncing. Today, Wilosevic changed his jeans twice and put on a tie “just to see.” Wagner, meanwhile, was lifting lint from his new overcoat. After buying me a much-needed burrito, Wakefield had his hair trimmed, unsatisfactorily—still too bushy on the left side, though as he conceded, the mistake was invisible.Will was gone for the weekend (thank God: I could breath some fresh air at night without...