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Welcome to conditioning

By Library Answer Person On January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Clothes, Culture, Lobby Book

Why do girls look sexy in skirts, but guys just look silly? [3591C]

Welcome to conditioning.

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Button this!

By Library Answer Person On January 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Clothes

I can’t get it straight which buttons to button on my suit coat, and now I have pants that have buttons on the back pockets.  Am I supposed to keep these unbuttoned or buttoned?  Does it matter where I keep my wallet?  I don’t want to lose that great job because my butt pockets are [...]

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Staying cool in the summer

By Library Answer Person On July 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Clothes, Lobby Book, Science

Is it so wrong to wear UNC blue?  It’s a good summer color. [3502C]

[written in answer space:  Death to you.]

If you want to keep your core temperature low during the summer months, it is actually more appropriate to wear light blue, since dark colors absorb the sun’s radiation more than light colors. In [...]

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Counterfeit Duke merchandise

By Library Answer Person On August 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Clothes, Duke

sir,
im working in orissa,jajpur road.i purchased a duke t-shirt from a shop name-YASODA,infront of jajpur k road station.t-shirt was bubbled in single wearing.i talked with woner of the shop & area incharg of duke Mr Santosh but nothing is happning.one month is gone.
so , the SERVICE OF THE DUKE IS VERY [...]

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Peat fabric

By Library Answer Person On February 21, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Clothes

Where can I buy a sweater made of wool and peat? Or at least peat and some kind of other fabric. Thank you!

Perhaps at a nursery. Or, you can get your wool sweater dirty with peat while engaged in gardening chores. I think that “peat” is sometimes used by designers to denote an earthtone [...]

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Underwear style

By Library Answer Person On April 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In 2007, Clothes, Just silly, Lobby Book

Boxers or Briefs?  or boxer-briefs?  or nothing at all? [3354C]

It’s certainly not nothing-at-all (is that a double negative?).   AP has a policy of not publicizing style of undergarment, at least not until running for public office.

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