Pret-a-porter. (catholic tastes).In the Italian fashion capital Milan, where, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times (Oct. 22, 2002) recently observed, "designers routinely send bare-breasted models onto runways ..., it is hard to conceive of Verb 1. conceive of - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" envisage, ideate, imagine making headlines with a pair of pockets." Yet that is what happened to Elisabetta Bianchetti, a designer for an Italian supplier of ecclesiastical clothing. Bianchetti redesigned the traditional habit worn by a community of Franciscan friars of the Third Order Regular in Assisi. The changes were quite modest, involving a return to the garment's original dun hue of undyed wool and other adjustments designed to mirror more closely historical depictions of the earliest Franciscans. What attracted the media attention was the replacement of two small slits with a pair of shirt-style pockets. The monk who commissioned the alterations was quoted as saying the pockets were to accommodate keys and a cellphone (CELLular telePHONE) The first ubiquitous wireless telephone. Originally analog, all new cellular systems are digital, which has enabled the cellphone to turn into a smartphone that has access to the Internet. , leading to "the image giddily conjured by the Italian press, which depicted followers of the saint who by legend spoke to birds trading their asceticism asceticism (əsĕt`ĭsĭzəm), rejection of bodily pleasures through sustained self-denial and self-mortification, with the objective of strengthening spiritual life. for text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. , digital paging, and caller ID." |
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