The ancients routinely wore sheer, see-through linens -- proof of the wearers' wealth -- racier than anything worn today.
Not a good thing when your most treasured garment is a see-through linen shirt.
From the moment I enter through linen panels under an embellished roof section that belonged to Maeda Toshika, last lord of Daishoji-han, before being installed in the Fukagawa Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Tokyo, I'm struck by every exquisite detail.
This highly skilled and laborious process began by sticking two sheets of paper together with glue made from chewed prison bread, passed through linen.
The condition is extremely contagious and spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact and through clothes, linens and furniture, the CDC said.
After lunch at the Penthouse Club, we went to Bloomingdale's, and while we were strolling through the linen department his hand found mine.
But most of the diners seem to have fully committed to the experience: staggering off the rickety wooden escalator, through the linen department next door, travelling in multigenerational packs whose collective optimism faded two floors ago.
I can see his bones shine through the linen shirt loosely dangling around his body.
I could see his bones shine through the linen shirt loosely dangling around his body.
In a fog of infatuation, I repeatedly wrote my married names on my notebook, sketching over the letters a crazillion times until the cardboard showed through the linen cover.
