" Carsen insists this is one of Kinmonth's greatest talents: "Often you want people to be wearing real clothes, not costumes, and when people are wearing 18th- or 19th-century dress, which doesn't feel contemporary to us, it's not as easy.

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Echoing the thinking behind the Naturalis appliance also featured below, these startups all recognize that consumers have a real desire for clothes and beauty products that are customizable in some way, making them more unique while also enabling the user to involve themselves in the design process.

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After this catastrophe, there is a lot more reflection going on over the real cost of cheap clothes.

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How about real estate, then commodities since we have no clothes and they got money?

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Clothes prices in the euro area should eventually fall steeply, boosting real household incomes and spending.

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By the time I graduated from college and landed my first real job, I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money: buy brand new clothes.

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