Word: wools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sander is not one of those designers whose participation in the process of making clothes ends when they have made a sketch. A former student of textile engineering, she insists on controlling all the details of manufacturing, and has invented fabrics like wool velvet and wool linen. She tries on every item in her collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander...
...what must have seemed like an Eastern Mountain Sports convention. (Understand that when we arrived at Harvard, each FOPer was individually deloused and all his or her worldly possessions were put into storage. The most important of these items was jeans. Thus we were garbed in long underwear, wool pants and the item most indispensable for all crunchy people: the fleece pullover.) Over dessert some FOP members pondered whether it might be better to be locked in the store's marine-themed "vault" for a week than go on the nature outing originally planned...
Everyone knows World Cup matches have been sweltering -- everyone, that is, except Iranian TV viewers, who are shown pictures of crowds bundled up in wool overcoats, mittens and boots. Censors did not dare show scantily dressed fans in America for fear of corrupting Islamic morals...
...anything that might go before a jury, even demanding to see the resume of one witness, Michele Kestler, assistant director of the police crime lab, after he challenged her authority to say the prosecution required at least 100 of Simpson's hairs to match them against hairs in a wool ski hat found at the ^ murder scene. The defense offered one hair; the judge ruled that prosecutors could have between...
...designers are operating at their very best -- among the established masters, Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene; among newcomers, Han Feng and Byron Lars. Blass made some sense out of the current fad for bright colors by working in wools that were vibrant, with pretty, harmonious dyes. He used tweeds and wool jersey with an ease and fluency that mark a seasoned tailor. Beene also favored wool jersey, which he considers "the perfect material." His outfits, which came in all lengths, had the homely virtue of actually looking like winter clothes, garments that would keep the wearer warm...