Retailers attribute the uptick in thong sales to new "intimate fabrics" that make them more comfortable.
As if there is no pattern, no discernable imprint of misogyny, no deep and pervasive system of sexism that means these things are not rare occasions but are ubiquitous parts of the intimate and daily fabric of women's lives.
Taking place in Hauser & Wirth's new Savile Row space, it consists of 70 "fabric drawings", intimate, small-scale works made from domestic items such as napkins, buttons and scraps of clothes, made between 2002 and 2008.
As Mr. McVoy observes, modern development has already erased much of China's historic architectural fabric, like intimate courtyard neighborhoods of Beijing, which were defined by their hutongs, or alleyways.
Performing major life functions such as mobilizing, hearing, seeing, communicating and understanding are such intimate elements of the fabric of our experience that what we view as within our reach in the world around us and thereby what we take as the objects of our ambition arises out of the scope and facility of our biological functioning.
Rust might have not been able to control his case, but you got the sense that that didn't matter to him: Why care about the case when you've got an intimate understanding of the fabric of the universe in which you reside?
"When we take into account the fact that lots of couples do feel pressured…then we can see that the opportunities for stress to work their way into the very fabric of our intimate bonds are plentiful," says coauthor Thomas Bradbury, citing struggles like unemployment, child rearing, and both partners working outside the home.
Empty the hampers - Do the laundry without resentment or commentary and have an intimate encounter with the very fabric of life.
Their latest documentary, Tears in the Fabric, is an intimate portrait of the fall-out from Rana Plaza long after the world has moved on to other news items.
Fabrics and crafts, intimate apparel, electronics and food had the strongest increases in sales, the retailer said.
