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Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...
...line between employer and employee is hazy in Prato, and the town's artisans easily cross it. Twin brothers Enrico and Franco Rosati resigned from a family business in 1967 and founded their own company to produce carded wool. The twins' $24,000 investment has blossomed into annual sales of $40 million. Francesco and Rosa Palmieri moved north from Sicily 35 years ago and became itinerant clothing peddlers. Now they and their four children, with their spouses, own and work at a family firm whose sales have soared in ten years from...
People seem to be buying mostly practical items this year. "Wool socks are a gifty item" at the Cambridge Army and Navy Store, and Hit or Miss is selling a lot of shetland sweaters and velvet. Furniture stores also claim to be doing well. "I don't understand it, I figured it would be terrible," Phillip L. Dicarlo, the manager of Putnam Furniture, said yesterday...
...papers don't promise any excitement. Ther are no big movies opening. No music worth travelling to. A night for improv. They decide to start with Rebel Without A Cause because the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater has never seen it yet somehow feels like he ought...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...