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  • I suspect one of the reasons why women labour under the misconception that it is impossible to work in a dress hinges upon the fact most dresses sold en mass are completely innappropriate to work in in the first place; short clinging skirts, uncomfortable tayloring, innappropriate fabric. a pair of good quality yet practical sandals, a hippie skirt, undershorts and a peasant blouse in natural fabric are very servicable.

    Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009

  • They seem to think that the economy refers only to the rich getting richer, the schemers having new ways to fleece the populace, and tayloring a system that rewards not people working hard but people working the system.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2009

  • Semi-off topic note about how Obama is tayloring his pitch to Latinos on Super Tuesday:

    Los Angeles Times Endorses Obama, McCain 2009

  • They seem to think that the economy refers only to the rich getting richer, the schemers having new ways to fleece the populace, and tayloring a system that rewards not people working hard but people working the system.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2009

  • From the beginning I was intrigued by the prospect of tayloring complex magnetic potentials with lithographically fabricated circuit patterns, combining traps, wave guides, and other atom optical elements to create a quantum laboratory on a chip.

    Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography 2006

  • The taylor who makes your coats (and very well they are made too, with the best of velvit collars) — I say Stulze, or Nugee, might cry out that THEIR motifs were but to assert the eturnle truth of tayloring, with just as much reazn; and who would believe them?

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • The taylor who makes your coats (and very well they are made too, with the best of velvit collars) -- I say Stulze, or Nugee, might cry out that THEIR motifs were but to assert the eturnle truth of tayloring, with just as much reazn; and who would believe them?

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Many persons, in the village of — — —, in Massachusetts, remember Mary Lowe, a diligent, ingenious little girl of a respectable family, who was left an orphan when quite young, with a very slender provision, which her guardians wisely expended, in obtaining for her a decent education and the tayloring trade.

    Mary Hollis 1822

  • Excellent musicality is powered by acoustic tayloring

    eDealinfo.com - Today's Hot Deals 2009

  • There was a little something for everyone, from grown up tayloring, to fanciful almost ballerina like poofy skirts with giant fabric flower accents.

    StyleList Fashion Blog 2008

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