Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woolen plaids highlight St. Laurent's collection. Other materials include always practical corduroy, soft leather, velvet, and silk...
...fact is that the presidency has so many facets that its millions of viewers ?and the world's press?can pick up just about any glint they want. Collections of these glimpses, such as Woolen's, can be accurate in detail but in the whole mosaic gravely exaggerate a President's traits while failing to consider inevitable forces of the office that require his resistance. Hardly had Powell's ire cooled than other columnists were citing certain parallels between Carter and Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone...
That's when I made my getaway. Up the stairs past the sleeping boneless chicken, past a bowl of goldfish knitting woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...
Dressing warmly is mainly a matter of insulation-of trapping body heat. Loggers who work Maine's north woods wear up to ten layers of loose-fitting clothes. Next to themselves, they like old-fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...sense, is the most prodigal of all heat leakers. It can lose 50% of all body warmth. The head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs only $4.95 and completely covers the head and neck...