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...else. "Women dress for women," Tiffany explained. Actually, women dress sexy for men, but they usually have to do this in a place where there are other women around, so they spend $1,700 on a Cavalli white leather skirt so the other women don't think they're cheap. That's why the logos are on the outside...
...slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...much to look at, just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. Built in 1568, it now caters to a few score local Jews and thousands of tourists. The narrow lane leading to the synagogue is full of shops selling dubious antiques and cheap handicrafts. Inside, the main hall is awash in gaudy colors, far too much gold paint and more chandeliers than any ceiling should be expected to bear. It seems less a place of worship than a curiosity, and the resident "guide" seems principally interested in selling postcards. One of these is a picture of the tiles, which...
...first imported into Britain in 1929, are supplied by the historic Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire, where in 1709 iron was first smelted with coke rather than charcoal, thus helping to usher in the industrial age. Hand-finished right through to its glossy enameled surface, the Aga does not come cheap. At between $7,000 and $15,000, the Aga is at home in big country kitchens full of damp dogs and drying riding gear. But the stove has also become a fashion accessory. "I've sold second-hand Agas to people whose excuse in buying one is that it will...
...precise-looking 48-year-old with close-cropped white hair and a neatly-trimmed goatee, Antoniotti did his own apprenticeship here in the 1960s and lived through the lean years of the '70s and '80s, when cheap quartz watches from the Far East decimated the Swiss industry's traditional market. "If I'd had kids back then, I'd never have advised them to go into this business," he says. But today that trend has been thrown into reverse as watch manufacturers scramble to make up for two decades when recruiting was nonexistent...