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...Over the past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices. Many of its cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This means cheaper sweaters but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also be the product...
...There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...shade before adding layers of color that don't always overcome the underlying gray tones, and he painted from wax models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite disdaining anatomy, he loved the texture of fur, hair, trees and starched linen. St. Jerome as Scholar (ca. 1600-1614) is almost all oversized red cape, silky white beard, fuzzy hair and black eyebrows complete with stray white feelers. In The Crucifixion With Two Donors (ca. 1580) you can almost feel the left-hand donor's crumpled surplice. The other...
...abroad—from semesters spent in Europe or South America or Asia. We could find their pictures, captioned “LOA,” in the house facebook. The returning students had changed from the pictures we identified them by. The they’d cut their hair, or exuded a new, vaguely Continental languor, or had become raconteurs. In their absence, we had bought books at the Coop and trudged up Garden Street to the Quad and had slept through lectures in Sever or Emerson—had done, in short, the same things Harvard students have...
...combination of Mexico City and Paris”—and that our absent roommate was happy there. In the pictures my roommate brought back she looks happy. The tilt of her head is more coquettish than I remember, the cut of her clothes more sophisticated, her hair glossier, curlier. Because the pictures are a little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents. On the telephone, after the string of foreign rings have elapsed, our absent roommate tells us she’ll be ready to come back next September, that she’ll appreciate Harvard more then...