Band comes across not as a loose end but as a particularly shiny thread as woven as any into the Clinton cloth.
The twist is, he uses shiny thread stretched across the rough surfaces of his paintings and piled up to make clumps of vegetation.
There are hints of Larkin in her tender descriptions of landscape and imaginative responses to the ineffable, such as the two old horses in a field overhearing Alice's voice, "which must seem a silly shiny thread drawn across the mute surface of their day".
Interpretations go for $2,100 for a Marc Jacobs nubby pink and cream tweed; $1,045 for a St. John fringed plaid; $246 for BCBG's version in pink and tan; and $190 for Zara's Lurex-threaded style, its hem trailing shiny multicolored threads.
A cotton-linen blend with shiny rayon threads, in background, called Pavone, is $150 a yard (to the trade) at Donghia; www.donghia.com or (212 925-2777.
In the home economics room, 10 mothers sit on stools threading shiny beads on to pipe cleaners.
Using scissors and scraps, Julia's daughter made costumes for stuffed bunnies, sang country-and-Western songs at the top of her lungs, strung shiny beads on thread, gave loving names to the kitchen appliances.
Shiny copper piping is threaded through lighting fixtures, the centerpiece of which is a large copper chandelier designed to look like a deconstructed spiral staircase.
Add elements such as black feathers, small plastic skulls on black thread or shiny goo with plastic insects stuck on it.
You'll look best in a pair of shiny Oxfords that match your threads -- so black will clearly be the easiest choice.
I'm terrible at losing mine, so I threaded a big shiny cord through it, and now it doesn't get lost on my desktop.
