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Those crimplene smocky type tops with amateur dated diamondy wiggly shaped designs in shades of ... brown .. which I thought had thankfully disappeared with most Sunday market tat which was very prevalent in London suburb street markets in the seventies.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Rita (an amalgam of several real-life protesters) is a cash-strapped seamstress, adrift in a late-60s era of rayon, crimplene and rampant male chauvinism.
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Those crimplene smocky type tops with amateur dated diamondy wiggly shaped designs in shades of ... brown .. which I thought had thankfully disappeared with most Sunday market tat which was very prevalent in London suburb street markets in the seventies.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Although of course, I suppose they can just pull out an old video of themselves, like Dorian Grey or something, whereas all I have to show for my agonies is an empty sherry-churn and some unfashionable crimplene slacks.
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After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of us and asked us if we were transit passengers.
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Just before we reached it, however, we were suddenly headed off by a man in blue crimplene, who asked us what we thought we were doing in there.
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He waved us magnificently away from the snack counter, made us pick up all our gear again, and herded us back through the door and away into the first room where, a minute later, the man in the brown crimplene found us again.
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Cardigans, however, are the crimplene of male attire.
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Nothing backresistance, retrapping witchery crimplene.
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Cardigans, however, are the crimplene of male attire.
MaryW commented on the word crimplene
Wikipedia</a>.Jeannette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), p. 3. Id. at 99.
January 12, 2016