Too many maids are paid largely in kind: table scraps, cast-off clothes and a shack at the bottom of the garden.
The clothes themselves gave off a certain worn-in feel as though they were fabulous treasures found in the attic of a once very stylish aunt.
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Customers who don't want their thermostat on autopilot could change their habits, by keeping the thermostat higher some days and running the electricity-hogging clothes dryer when off-peak prices are in effect.
"They are beginning to wear clothes you could wear off the course too, " he said.
"I used to get into trouble for cutting the sleeves off my clothes, " he jokes.
It makes sense that people will voluntarily wait to run their clothes dryer until cheaper off-peak hours.
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While standing before the bishop of Assisi, Francis stripped off his clothes and renounced his paternal inheritance, Benedict said.
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Sure, I like the way my clothes are literally hanging off of me.
As soon as the baby fell in, Ms Cooper said she had begun stripping off her clothes and was about to jump in.
The switchman lifted his head from the rail, blew his nose, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and adopted a serious, dignified expression.
Luke Young from Farnborough took off his clothes and jumped into Hawley Lake on Saturday with the pony, which was harnessed to a trap.
Redmayne has a virginal look, a knocked-silly astonishment when the most famous woman in the world shucks off her clothes and jumps into a freezing river.
Mr Carr-Gomm is a self-professed Druid and a practitioner of Wicca (a modern form of paganism that can involve a lot of larking around naked) and enjoys stripping off his clothes during country walks.
"I'll get there, " she says, recalling that when she first came back to open a Hong Kong store with her label in 1993, salespeople told her to take the "Made in China" label off the clothes.
And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.
They tear off his dusty clothes and clean his body, a symbol of their perseverance.
"Sometimes I have to take off all my clothes and shake them out to find one, " he adds cheerfully.
Foss recalled waiting on the tarmac to take off from Tokyo, Japan, when a woman suddenly took off all her clothes and began running up and down the aisles.
They quickly learned that they needed to scale back too everything from taking shorter showers to save on water, to holding off on new clothes to using their own money if they wanted extras (like a trip to the drive-thru).
Clothes boutiques might end up laying off staff if people choose to have vintage garments mended instead of rushing out to buy the latest fashions.
During a business trip to Los Angeles in the 1980s, he dropped off a suit and clothes for cleaning a few days before a big meeting.
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For spring he delivered clothes that are bound to fly off the racks like half-zip sweaters, knitted henleys, slim swim trunks, and the rugby shirts and tailored cargo pants that have become his signature.
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Customers who call Zappos.com to order shoes or clothes will not feel pressured to get off the phone.
She changed into her night clothes and got into bed and turned off the lamp, but she was too agitated to sleep.
They offer great benefits, paid time off accruals and discounts on clothes.
Connolly clothes were not the sort you bought off the peg, but like much haute couture they had an influence on the broader market.
The Devil may wear Prada, but Gigi dresses in off-the-rack clothes she bought a few years ago from places like Forever 21, or she borrows clothes, or she makes her own.
He had been in contact with Atari to partner on some holiday menswear gifty items when the light bulb went off for more refined women's clothes, Sternberg explained.
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