Lance decided to open a thrift store because he figured it would be easy for him to run, didn't take a lot of skilled workers, and he could hit up wealthy churches for donations of clothing and other articles.

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The point of layering is to be constantly vigilant of how you're feeling, and adding and subtracting articles of clothing as necessary.

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But designers haven't had much success in protecting designs on fundamental articles of clothing, ones that might cover, say, the shape of a blouse or the cut of a collar on a shirt.

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"Amazing articles of clothing can really help in terms of time management, " Fu says as she slips on a pair of flats before heading to meet a friend at CoHo, a Stanford University coffeehouse.

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While the numbers spit out could be used to purchase a custom made suit, the company is focusing more on retail sales, where the information could be used to identify articles of clothing that will fit best.

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Elizabeth and her advisers organised expensive gift-giving of elaborate pieces of jewellery and exquisite articles of clothing, seeing to it that the gifts offered to her at the new year were, from year to year, increasingly extravagant, and increasingly matched to particular requirements for Elizabeth's court dress, communicated to the gift-giver well in advance.

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