Word: wool
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Sherlock Holmes became a tweed icon at the turn of the last century after sporting nubby wool capes while on the trail of London's miscreants. Ralph Lauren's first collection in 1968 made the tweed suit a menswear staple. And now Lower East Side hipsters can't seem to get enough of the classic suiting fabric, signaling that tweed is staging a comeback. For his fall collection, Junya Watanabe spun the storied fabric into schoolboy blazers nostalgic for jaunts across Cambridge's Bridge of Sighs. And with the recent sartorial resurgence, it's no surprise that tweed is migrating...
...piece of art for an average of $320 to $500, but prices at the exhibit ranged from $7.00 to several thousand dollars, depending on their workmanship. McLaughlin said that Navajo rugs are particularly expensive because they are made holistically—artists often raise sheep to obtain the wool for the rugs. Bailey said she takes a small commission on her sales to pay costs such as her RV, which she uses to travel around the country. Her vehicle, which was parked outside of the Peabody Museum for the duration of her show, is fully equipped with a bedroom, kitchen...
MINIMALIST SUIT Patagonia's $530 wet suit uses less neoprene, along with recycled polyester, chlorine-free wool and PVC-free kneepads...
...WOOL & MOHAIR RANCHERS Their WW II-era subsidies to be phased out, saving $500 million...
...insiders have been less than forthright about their stance on the controversial interrogation techniques, we believe now just as we did then that waterboarding is torture, and should never be condoned or practiced by the U.S. The Bush administration, however, has had no qualms with trying to pull the wool over the American people’s eyes again—top government officials were not only complicit in the destruction of interrogation footage, but also attempted to divert blame for the prisoner abuse scandal on a “few bad apples...