Word: wool
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STELLA GETS HER GROOVE AT H&M Hot on the heels of last year's sellout success with Karl Lagerfeld, Swedish retail giant H&M will introduce next week another one-off line of hip fashion items, designed this time by Stella McCartney. Get ready for drainpipe wool pants, slouchy sweaters and silk spaghetti-strap dresses...
...that bureaucrats might not be the best judges of the situation. "The government failed," says King. "The citizens have to stand up and say, 'Get out of the way. We'll take care of our own.'" And so, for the past week, King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," has been sharing his home with the Meehan-Hoo family, a lesbian couple with three children, ages 5, 7 and 9. "The adults are same sex, and I don't care," he says. "I don't care if they're purple and got horns coming out of their faces...
...wasn’t surprised that he had gone directly into a significant government position” Bush says. “But I hadn’t thought of him as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative...
...easily found in such low-cost stores as H&M, the Swedish chain that has 78 U.S. outlets. Its fall collection looks as though it were pulled from a closet in Big Sur, circa 1972. "We've imported a lot of items with accents of leather and suede, rustic wool and tweed from Eastern Europe and northern Canada," says Jennifer Uglialoro, H&M's U.S. spokeswoman. Also among the fall offerings are romantic blouses, heavy knits and feathered earrings for girls and vintage-inspired T shirts for boys...
...soldiers were going mad, grabbing girls and kissing them, so we decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were just the same, but the VC changed Kenna's life for good. In between raising four children and being town hall curator for 34 years, he's met royalty, traveled the world for reunions...