In addition to natural fibers like cotton, silk and wool, there are now a wide variety of synthetics on the shelves.
For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.
Tautz and Hardy Amies among them are recruiting neoclassic and avant-garde designers alike, refining and retrofitting their silk, wool, cashmere and knit wares just enough to maintain their legendary pedigree while attracting a new and youngish clientele.
Aluminum foil as wrinkle remover: To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothes that can't take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it.
And a white silk shell, navy textured tweed lame jacket, and marine wool silk jacquard pant combo looked perfect for the editor at work.
Wang folded fabric like origami to create wool-silk tops, and then topped them over the chest with a silk band.
It's essential, in order for consumers to embrace a fabric, that it look like wool, silk or another natural material, Mr. Kriemler says.
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And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.
The Australian "15 Milmil 15" wool feels like silk, breathes like Egyptian cotton and wears like iron.
In her workshop at the Limerick Craft Hub, she showed me how the technique just involves a strip of silk, some lengths of spun wool, some water and a couple of hand sanders.
They will have plenty to swoon over here: breezy ankle length dresses in printed silk, tweed shorts-suits and wool cloaks.
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Soon after it was set up, it got into wool and (more profitably) silk.
It won't take much work to "convert" Ralph Lauren 's antique grey flannel three-piece suit, Oscar de la Renta's black double-faced wool dress or Tommy Hilfiger's high-waisted silk pants paired with a draped sweater into office attire.
If that weren't enough, silk fabrics have been replaced by luxuriously textured, nubby blends such as cashmere and wool.
The house has also expanded its made-to-measure custom business, offering a wide range of fine leather gloves and cashmere and wool socks (or "hose, " as it quaintly still calls them), silk ties, even boxer shorts.
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