Mr Couriel sees these coming from exports, and not just from traditional beef and wool.
If that weren't enough, silk fabrics have been replaced by luxuriously textured, nubby blends such as cashmere and wool.
They will have plenty to swoon over here: breezy ankle length dresses in printed silk, tweed shorts-suits and wool cloaks.
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In addition to natural fibers like cotton, silk and wool, there are now a wide variety of synthetics on the shelves.
Robed in layers of Under Armour and wool, plus masks, liners, and hand-warmers, I welcome snow blowing horizontally and the single-digit wind-chill factor.
By our reckoning, just about every man and his dog is getting involved, and occasionally even some sheep ( Shearing and Wool Handling Championships).
This two-button blazer and wool-crepe trouser has a light, fluid shape, ideal for warm days, and the straight-leg trouser hits just above the hip.
Whether consumers are ready to give up fur, leather and wool is another story, even if it's in favor of equally stylish and warm alternatives.
Banking and wool had made Florence envied and admired throughout Renaissance Europe, but their shrinking did not mean that the city slipped out of Europe's consciousness.
An elongated baseball jacket in panels of leather and wool begged to be worn by a street style star as soon as it emerged from the runway.
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Howell still uses linen from Ireland and wool from Scotland, and says that Scottish water is "lovely and soft, " so the wool is washed to a particular effect.
For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.
Michael Kors this month showed a coat worn with shorts, while Vera Wang showed dark-colored sleeveless fur coats and wool shrugs with light chiffon dresses in colorful spring-like prints.
Standout pieces included a suede quilted lamb vest, a spruce-green fairisle shawl collar sweater and wool herringbone striped trousers (above) and a laser quilted bomber vest with charcol trousers (left).
My wife and I own a small sheep farm in upstate New York offering for sale our livestock and wool products both online and at festivals and fairs in many states.
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The house has also expanded its made-to-measure custom business, offering a wide range of fine leather gloves and cashmere and wool socks (or "hose, " as it quaintly still calls them), silk ties, even boxer shorts.
They wore gray maternity dresses and gray wool stockings and clunky brown shoes, all paid for by generous donations, they were informed.
Working in their homes using traditional looms and local wool, the women weave and knit mittens, stockings, skirts and blouses, which often feature bright colours, vivid stripes and intricate embroidery.
It all felt slightly less aggressive than last season when we saw dark monkish hoods, black knit elbow-length fingerless gloves and mysterious wool tailoring with twill suits and leather jackets.
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Dyers' Souq (Souq Sebbaghine) is the most picturesque, with skeins of freshly dyed saffron and vermillion wool hung to dry against Marrakshi pink walls and Saharan blue skies.
Eva nodded, and this time she did smile, but Harley was already moving away, loping off toward the gate in his winter coat, the snow clinging to his coat sleeves and the wool cap as he stepped out onto the pavement and headed across the green.
The celebrations begin on Thursday, when edgy and inventive comedians Glen Wool and Jarred Christmas perform at the Castle Gardens.
All the tweed coats and jackets (British fabrics, Indian tailors) and cardigans (British wool and patterns, family-women knitters) came out of mothballed trunks.
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.
Prada's Shetland-wool sweaters and gingham-patterned coats and dresses of stiff wool created a nostalgic feel.
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In fact, there is no commercial director to help guide the double-breasted coats and chunky wool turtleneck sweaters into shops.
She ditched the ceiling fans, covered yellow walls with sage-colored wallpaper, darkened the blond wood floor and installed wool carpets.
His orgone-energy accumulator, or orgone box, as it became known, resembled a wooden telephone booth lined with metal sheeting and steel wool.
And a white silk shell, navy textured tweed lame jacket, and marine wool silk jacquard pant combo looked perfect for the editor at work.
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