As American lines like Bonobos, Band of Outsiders and Freemans Sporting Club have adapted the traditional tailoring of their storied U.K. counterparts to suit modern tastes ("if it ain't broke we'll nip it"), at London's custom houses, even a stitching tweak would be perceived as mutinous a decade ago.

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There is a mutinous mood among motorists over proposed hikes in fuel duty and taxes on polluting cars.

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Mutinous soldiers continue to occupy a barracks at Labasa, on Fiji's second-largest island, Vanua Levu.

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