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  • Among them: the once red-hot Norma Kamali, known for jersey-draped dresses, sleeping-bag coats and ensembles made from gray sweat-shirt material, who is creating a clothing line for Wal-Mart that will debut in the fall.

    After Misstep, Wal-Mart Revisits Fashion 2008

  • Experimented with the washing machine and managed to get quite a lot of my T-shirts, trousers, sweat-shirt, covered in loads of pink fluffy stuff which seems to have migrated from a bath-towel.

    Tha cat's away Part 2 Bob Lock 2007

  • Experimented with the washing machine and managed to get quite a lot of my T-shirts, trousers, sweat-shirt, covered in loads of pink fluffy stuff which seems to have migrated from a bath-towel.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Bob Lock 2007

  • She dressed, bearing in mind the nature of her new job, pulling on a pair of culotte-type shorts in practical cotton, wearing them with a matching brightly coloured T-shirt, and then adding a sweat-shirt in case the day proved to be cooler than the clear blue sky suggested.

    Lesson To Learn Jordan, Penny 1997

  • She dressed, bearing in mind the nature of her new job, pulling on a pair of culotte-type shorts in practical cotton, wearing them with a matching brightly coloured T-shirt, and then adding a sweat-shirt in case the day proved to be cooler than the clear blue sky suggested.

    Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997

  • She dressed, bearing in mind the nature of her new job, pulling on a pair of culotte-type shorts in practical cotton, wearing them with a matching brightly coloured T-shirt, and then adding a sweat-shirt in case the day proved to be cooler than the clear blue sky suggested.

    Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997

  • Off duty, he had dressed in a navy blue sweat-shirt and jeans, which managed not to look too incongruous in the beautiful little sitting-room which had been made less beautiful by a too-large cherry-coloured three piece suite.

    The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

  • "Not long ago, I saw a guy with a Bad Religion sweat-shirt on and it had a cross with one of those red 'no' things going through it," Buran said.

    unknown title 2009

  • He was working in Glenville, WV on Thursday and was last seen wearing light-brown Carhart suspenders and a forest-green hooded sweat-shirt.

    12 Top Stories, Sports and Weather 2009

  • Frank Cordova stared at the bloodstains on the sweat-shirt—that’s what they seemed to be, here under the bright lights of the lab—heavy, fresh stains around the neckline, and several large, lighter areas under the white letters spelling out “Galliard.”

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

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