Since the British never did clothes very well, today's designers are not constrained by ideas of how things should be done.
We spend much less than we did on clothes and entertainment.
But the new clothes did nothing to stop a 2-year-old Syrian girl named Dareen from crying hysterically.
They drove new cars, wore flashy clothes, did elaborate home renovations.
Clothing and footwear - particularly for women - showed no improvement, with the BRC suggesting this may be because shoppers already did much of their clothes shopping for the year during the warm weather seen in April.
"I used to get a lot of mail from ladies wanting to know if I ever sold any of my clothes and where did I get them, " she says.
Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer?
He said his wife did just that, ducking under a clothes rack until the threat was over.
Miss Connolly invented a pleated linen that did not crease, turning it into clothes much appreciated by her clients jetting around from one home to another.
For young Bill Blass the local cinemas promised another world, of glamour, where people did nothing all day except wear nice clothes and have a good time.
"We basically walked into her house, she did hair and makeup, picked out the clothes and we started, " she recalled.
Baltimore (CNN) -- Baltimore police say they made an arrest in a violent robbery in March that left a man battered and stripped of his clothes on a street while onlookers laughed and did nothing to help.
For starters, the Indian government never embarked on an official program to mandate Western clothes in the workplace as the Japanese Emperor Meiji did in the early 1900s, triggering a decline in traditional outfits.
"I think we did a good job, " Stanfill says, pointing out that keeping clothes in good shape is a difficult business, susceptible as they are to both light and dust.
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Here, the queen would often dress in simple clothes and pretend to live as a peasant (a fact that did not endear her to the local population).
Zappos has begun to expand from shoes, as Amazon did from its base of books, into other categories of merchandise: handbags, clothes.
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