(Are there no decent fabric stores in Illinois?) McMoon, whose costumes originated at the Repertory Theater of St . Louis dresses a good deal better than his boss does, committing sartorial mayhem only in the second act, when he shows up for a rehearsal session wearing a sport coat and a formal white tie and shirt.
If you're a decent tailor, fabric may be a better choice for the outside of your Mau5head than paint.
Even Roy Jenkins, the man the Tories blame for destroying the fabric of decent society with his liberal policies on abortion, buggery and the like, was panicked by a spate of prison escapes (he said he feared to walk down Whitehall lest he bump into an escaped jailbird), imposing a security regime in our jails which would have alarmed all his Tory confrères save Michael Howard.
It's that other material – the truly vile and illegal stuff, hidden from public view – that represents the true threat to the fabric of decent society.
The social fabric of decent living is imperiled.
"While it will not last as long, the fabrics are from decent Italian mills and have a slim fit".
The theory says they must do such-and-such, so they do it, never mind the human consequences, never mind the social cost, never mind the terrible damage to the fabric of everything decent and humane.
It undermines and destabilizes the moral fabric of a decent and stable society, by encouraging sexual promiscuity, deviant sexual practices and other attitudes and behaviour that threaten traditional family and religious institutions, and which conservatives regard as intrinsically morally wrong.
Peter Som made a decent collection with just a few fabrics: red and white tweed, leopard-print jacquard and some printed chiffons.
Most of the beds are in decent shape, still covered with brightly patterned fabric, but some are badly stained, battered and torn.
