Lawyer and professor Cheryl Mendelson has written a whole book (Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens) about the zen-like feeling that comes from sticking your face in a pile of freshly washed clothes.
Photos: 1. Paul Smith linen shorts, about $360.
It gets more Call the Midwife once we get to their destination, the fictitious Hospital 25A where well-meaning women in starched linen go about their business.
Angel told me that he had lost his job in a towel and linen warehouse about six weeks ago and that he wanted to get a job more than anything.
"We're talking about furniture, we're talking about linens, we're talking about all kinds of things," says Rice, when we met last week at Fair Trade USA's offices in Oakland, California.
As of Dec. 31, Linens 'n Things had about 15,000 employees in the United States, nearly two-thirds of them part-time workers.
At the front desk, guests trade horror stories about their isolation while hotel workers scurry about, changing linens and gathering up days' worth of trash and tableware and cheerfully reminding us to return to our rooms, as the storm is coming back again.
This linen dress is about $2,000 at Chloe, 850 Madison Avenue.
The patterned white fabric on the wall, Liseron Tourquoise, is a blend of linen and cotton (about $72 a meter).
Crumpled, anaemic and un-dynamic, the cropped linen trouser is about as sexy as a sunburnt nose.
