Word: twill
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...edge designer Thom Browne to create 50 pieces a season. That doesn't mean, though, that Browne will stray far from the company's DNA. Dipping into the archives, he found inspiration in the cape F.D.R. wore at Yalta, and as a result, come September, Brooks will sell black twill capes with fur collars...
...Brazil, and its amethyst-and-garnet geometric drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus of three months...
...wash your hands for the length of Yankee Doodle) and answers to questions that have been asked of me. Once on a bus through San Francisco's Chinatown, a recent immigrant took some pants out of a Gap bag, pointed to the label and asked me, "What is twill?" If only back then I'd had page 198 under my belt...