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...make a knee-length skirt. Maria Azarraga, 18, who lives in Leesburg, Ga., sewed together parts of a panda-print sweater she bought on eBay with a second sweater from Goodwill and some faux white fur she found at a fabric store to make a black-and-white, hooded wool "bomber" jacket. When she posted pictures to the Sew Hip community on the site LiveJournal.com in early November, she got raves from other members, including Shay Silver, 23, from Potsdam, N.Y., who wrote, "That is a freaking awesome sweater...
Whatever else it is, “successful” is not the word to describe the Bush Administration’s stated policy to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East. Until recently, ink-stained fingers and a faux-parliament provided enough wool to convince American voters of imminent success in Iraq, but even the bigots on Borat now seem to understand democracy entails more than playing multiple-choice at the ballot...
...view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, provides a concentrated look at exactly what the title says it does. Likewise, Rosemarie Trockel’s “Made in Western Germany” is aptly titled on several levels: quite literally made in Western Germany, the pea-green wool background of the piece is also broken up by row upon row of the title’s words...
...said of J. Press’s business. “People have always come in for advice on what is good taste, what is appropriate, and what is not. They come for the tradition.” Tradition at J. Press comes in the form of tweed suits, wool scarves, and the pièce de résistance: silk ties, in every color. After all, there’s nothing like neckwear embroidered with tiny baseball players, cocker spaniels, or clowns to encourage people to take you seriously. All patterns, even the hipster-approved skull and crossbones...
...Just an hour into the event, so many non-Harvard students had smuggled themselves in, we felt like we were in an introductory algebra course at the Extension School. Just smelling these commoners made us want to run home and take a shower in rubbing alcohol with a steel wool loofah...