Lemieux, who had on jeans, a fleece, and a ball cap that read "Vermont Public Television," is a trim and clean-cut Canadian.
Same kind of guy in sweats, a fleece and a ball-cap letting his knees expand to the widest possible angle while downing a free drink.
There were men's vests made of shearling, little fleece hats, a taffeta ball gown embroidered with aquamarines.
At the same time, I'm kind of proud that somewhere in my country has the balls to fleece people as brazenly as Las Ramblas, Saint-Michel and Dam Square.
You can either have the nose be part of same material as the head, stick it onto the styrofoam ball, or cover it in fleece and then add it to the face.
Even in cooler months, I often come home from a hike in the woods with the fleece jacket I left with rolled up in a sweaty ball in my backpack.
From the Snuggle Ball at www.petsmart.com (from $34.99, depending on size) to the Fleece Top Round at www.llbean.com (from $25, insert sold separately), choices abounded.
But I am not the guy with the Labrador retriever and the tennis ball and the tattered book under his arm, who is wearing fleece and is kind of tan.
A dizzying palate of fabrics twist and turn on their mechanical conveyors around the hot, humid shop floor: a bright blue-and-green soccer-ball print, a burnt-orange calico, a luscious candy-striped knit, a gray fleece.
The research, published in June, found that a single synthetic fleece jacket released as much as 250,000 microfibers, or 2.7 grams — about the weight of a Ping-Pong ball — when washed in a machine.
