Record-Courier – Tahoe Breeze Alpacas has donated a stunning alpaca blanket and alpaca socks valued at $149 as well as a soft, blue alpaca sweater and socks valued at $189. Russell’s Mercantile donated a $50 basket of bakery good, and The Nature Conservancy a book

Why People Love Dogs
Slate – Within minutes, Roscoe, who probably had never been groomed in his short, miserable life, had shed an alpaca sweater’s worth of white hair on my husband’s navy sweat shirt. He stuck his head into my husband’s neck and licked it furiously. Roscoe was

Marc Jacobs placed fashion squarely in the realm of theater on Monday night. And when the red velvet curtain hanging the height and width of a full wall inside the Armory on Lexington Avenue was drawn back, a tableaux of more than 50 models stood at the foot of a three-story stage set containing white steps, windows, and doors. The stony-faced models were positioned in different directions, …

New York Fashion Week Sports More Classic Tailoring 
The style of Fashion Week is bringing back a more classic appeal.

GROTON — During the more than 231 years since America was founded, general stores have meant more than just being a place to buy food in the local community.
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Prada mirrors new macho mood 
MILAN, Italy – Women once wore pantsuits to affirm power. Now they feel confident enough to don a coat without sleeves. It was a long struggle for recognition, but women are ready to flaunt victory.
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Bollywood craze grips even distant Peru 
Lima, Feb 5 The tourist guidebooks to Peru will tell you about the Incas, Machu Pichu, the Amazonian rainforests, the soft Alpaca wool and the beautiful textiles. They are ignoring Bollywood. I knew I could expect to hear the sound of Quena, an Andean flute playing the folk tune El Condor Pa
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