Word: tunic
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...wearing tight clothing. If you spot a stray man-boob exposed through a spandex t-shirt, or jodhpurs that snugly encase a pair of highly toned calves, you’re probably looking at one of these specimens.Type 2: The “You are wearing a linen tunic, but I admire how you are a down-to-earth, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer feminist” TF.These TFs are usually women and usually in the humanities, and their distinguishing feature, it seems, is their ability to wear linen at inappropriate times.For those...
...there are shoes everywhere?loafers, sandals and dainty, beaded dance slippers. Double doors draped with wilted marigolds lead to De Taillac's atelier. Lit by stark winter sunlight, the room's entire floor is laid with mattresses covered by white sheets. De Taillac, 41, in a brilliant red tunic with a red wrap, emerges from a back room and introduces three assistants from France and Sweden, who pad around barefoot and then settle cross-legged behind low tables...
...repeated to myself while crying over a toilet. “They’re merely misguided.” It was up to me to conquer my fear and buy a goddamn pair of leggings. Thus, I found myself in the dining hall, sporting leggings, a tunic, a pair of cowboy boots, obscene amounts of eyeliner and a massive chip on my shoulder. As I stuffed pasta into my mouth, I became more and more uncomfortable. The black thong was a mistake. The leggings, which were of an extremely poor quality, made me feel...
...importers from around the globe. "We have an Indian importer who visits me every week with new things. They just keep selling," says Kristen Sato, who along with her mother owns the children's-clothing store Flicka in Los Angeles. "We sell long, tiered peasant skirts and tie-dyed tunic shirts, some with embroidery and beading. There's a lot of mixing and matching. We also sell rock T shirts by the truckload. They're $60, with band names on them like the Rolling Stones and David Bowie, and we sell them all day long for infants to size...
...pointed his gun at the Afghan. "Maybe he thought I was a Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make sure the message was clear, Gulab lifted his tunic to show the American he wasn't hiding a weapon. He then propped up the wounded commando, and together the pair hobbled down the steep mountain trail to Sabari-Minah, a cluster of adobe-and-wood homes--crossing, for the time being, to safety...