Among the products Walmart is adding back are fabric, fishing poles and firearms.
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If there is a gathering of fabric on the back or if there is excess shirt material hanging loosely off the front, you have to get the next size down.
In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom.
In 1996, Elie Tahari brought back a swatch from Italy's Milior fabric mill.
There were many things to love, among them a plaid coat lined with shearling, trousers paneled with plaid and khaki fabric, impeccably tailored suits and khaki coats with planes of plaid fabric and rugby stripes on the back.
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Because American Giant's supply chain can be traced all the way back to the US cotton fields, with fabric being specially woven and dyed for it, getting a new shipment of raw materials wasn't as simple as making a phone call and waiting for an overnight delivery.
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He wears a quilted silver jacket with a gold scorpion embroidered on the back, and keeps on wearing it when the fabric is smeared with gore, but why would a man so clearly defined elsewhere by the spirit of self-effacement take such a risk?
She notes that in pictures of Thomson in the playoffs, there is some odd bunching of the fabric around the number 3 on the back. (He wore number 23 for the Giants.) Rousseau says that the severe process used to dry-clean jerseys at the time often caused odd distortions at the point where the numbers met the uniforms.
Serengetee invests in fabric-makers abroad by purchasing their patterns, but the company gives back in a more direct manner as well.
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Back then, Ford had to go outside the auto industry to find a textile manufacturer capable of producing recycled fabric.
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