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...only has designer underwear become a fad, but the look of all underwear has changed as well. Underwear made of satin and silk with lace trimming is being replaced by a more athletic style. This new image, still sexy, is much more practical. It bridges the gap between underwear you put on for class and underwear you wear to a hot date. Today's underwear is multipurpose, and much more comfortable than the Victoria's Secret lace crotch-floss...
...your green silk slippers, Spring...
...Ninth Street, 1951, with its traces of looping body shapes, makes that clear. Where it did not come from, though, was where it was often said to have come from: Oriental calligraphy. Of course, there is a superficial likeness between Kline's structures and ideograms in sumi ink on silk, especially in reproduction, when the particular qualities of paint and surface are lost. But the things themselves are very different. "People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black ! sign on it," protested Kline, "but this is not true. I paint the white as well...
...times the director Alain Corneau (who co-wrote the screenplay with Alain Quinard) makes them seem too stiff and doll-like for their own good. Most of the interior shots are done in warm, gentle lighting, making the tones subdued while the textures are palpable. The velvet and silk costumes are nothing short of sumptuous. Indeed, the entire film is a lavish production which has been a huge success and garnered many awards...
...drier, prompting a shift from a crop-based to a livestock-centered society. And by about 200 B.C., a warlike people called the Xiongnu had overrun a large part of the region. As part of a peace agreement with China's Han dynasty, the Xiongnu demanded annual tributes of silk, wine, rice, concubines and other luxuries. According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean Sea; on the Silk Road, bolts of Chinese silk were carried...