"This is magnified by the fact that the use cycle of goods is very short--diapers a few hours and clothes a few months, " he says.
Our clothes were few and tattered and our homes looked like they had been built by boys, which of course they had.
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.
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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We also ate out a couple times a week, got new cars every few years and pretty much bought whatever clothes we wanted, when we wanted.
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Because uniforms at the lower levels of the minors come in only a few standard sizes, both had to wear clothes that didn't fit.
They have a few cooking pots still, and a change of clothes.
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Although Lesley's clothes had been destroyed in 1985, a few fibres had been preserved attached to strips of adhesive tape from which forensic scientists were able to extract samples of the killer's bodily fluids.
Walking with us are white-collar retirees, accountants and lawyers, to name a few, who choose to spend the day in waterlogged clothes and each night warming up by a wood-burning stove while noshing on MREs from a camping store.
After Husna had a few times complained of not having money, of wearing torn clothes and broken-heeled shoes, K.K. instructed that she be given a tiny allowance.
It has not ventured into Italy or Spain, it is only now entering France (it opened its first store there in Paris on February 25th), it has a few shops in Britain, and in Germany its share of the clothes business is negligible.
And, now as then, few critics dare to question any well-established emperor's new clothes.
After a few sets of sit-ups, the women, dressed in gym clothes, roll up their mats and line up behind Ms. Barrett, facing mirrors.
Deference is still accorded to them in Poland, where the term intelligentsia carries residual prestige, but their clothes are now shabbier, their collars more frayed than they were a few years ago.
Fold your nice clothes away in the closet and become a potato farmer or something for a few years.
One morning, after wearing the same clothes for two days, I ventured to bathe in a slow-moving stream a few hundred meters from Thmar Baing.
Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.
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