). I really did agonize for a long time over what color lining to include – the fun side of me loves contrast linings, but the boring side of me thinks it makes things look a little cheap (except that red lining in my plaid Vogue coat; I have no regrets about that one!). I ...
I try hard also not to be influenced by choice of material, but the Loro Piana cotton is beautiful (soft and comfortable, but with a touch of the hardiness of denim) whereas the Solbiati linen is a bit too saturated for me, and lacking depth in the texture. Neither jacket nor trousers...
Difficulty:Expert Unless you’re re-lining a jacket that has some special meaning to you (a hand-me-down from a relative for example), this is often a fairly pointless alteration that will just end up wasting you money. Not only is it expensive, but it takes expert tailoring to accomplis...
my mother told us that we would not be ___1___ Christmas gifts for lack of money.I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d ___2___?” Then,three women ___3___ at our house with gifts for all of us.For me they bought a doll.I wou...
Combined with fungi’s ability to upcycle wastes into constructive mycelia, the fabrication of these functional mycelial materials is cheap, non-energy intensive, and, most importantly, renewable [8]. As such, there is growing interest, both academic and industrial, in this field of ‘funginee...
Among bioavailable sources, bio-wastes are emerging as abundant and cheap templates to build up photoactive hierarchical structures, following a waste to wealth approach. Indeed, because of intrinsic lightness, some bio-wastes can drive formation of water floating photocatalysts, which exhibit remarkable...
However, the process has received more attention with the concerning effects of trans-fatty acids, due to its simple and cheap technique. Dry fractionation was improved with introducing multistep crystallizations separated with membrane press filters allowing the manufacturing of fractions for different ...