Word: wool
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...money of their own to spend, and fashionmakers' fall lines reflect this. To provide for the growing mass market, the garment trade hopes to concentrate on fewer styles, and counts on mass production to hold prices down. There will be more of the basic models-nubby coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment makers have cut the number of styles by a third, yet have managed to bring out a new assortment suitable even for bikini wearers. In June...
Circle & Cross. As Dr. Rajewski and his crews sifted the mud, they discovered what the people ate, wore and worshiped. They raised wheat, barley and other crops, which they cultivated with small plows. The women wove cloth out of wool and flax, sewed with bronze needles...
...Knit dresses in cotton, wool and synthetic weaves. Says a Bloomingdale buyer: "It is easier to sell a wool knit for $60 or $70 than any other kind of dress...
...Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative company of tweed merchants...
...shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...