Its long hem folds up and buttons into the neckline, morphing it into a shorter jacket with what resembles a capacious game pocket albeit one more likely to contain an iPad than a day's haul of pheasant.

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Whenever the lower hem wasn't covering up legs, tight black leggings made of bandage strips and knee-high boots covered up any skin.

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They're showing a strip of fun between the pant-hem and shoelaces with all manner of patterned socks that one-up the now-ubiquitous stripe.

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As we turn up the road through the village that clings to the hem of Tikse's sprawling skirt, we hear the-plaintive, summoning blasts on the traditional (yes, in the Himalayas) conch-shell horn.

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The jeans I had before them cost the same, and I wore them until they got holes in them, and then I got those patched up, and then the patches got holes in them and the hem came out and I decided to move on.

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