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2. Aran knitting patterns - Wikipedia

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   Aran knitting patterns are heavily textured knitting patterns which are named after the Aran Islands, which are located off the west coast of Ireland from County Galway and County Clare. The patterns are knitted into socks, hats, vests, scarves, mittens, afghans, pillow covers, [ 1 ] and, most commonly, sweaters.

3. Penguin sweater - Wikipedia

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   Washing a victim of oil spills. Penguin sweaters, also known as penguin jumpers, [1] are sweaters knitted for penguins that have been caught in oil slicks. [2] When an oil spill affects penguins they have in the past been sometimes dressed in knitted sweaters, supposedly to stop them from poisoning themselves by ingesting the oil during preening, and to keep them warm, since the spilled oil ...

4. Joint European standard for size labelling of clothes

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   The joint European standard for size labelling of clothes, formally known as the EN 13402 Size designation of clothes, is a European standard for labelling clothes sizes. The standard is based on body dimensions measured in centimetres , and as such, and its aim is to make it easier for people to find clothes in sizes that fit them.

5. Australia's oldest man, who knitted sweaters for tiny ...

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   Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:51 PM Australia's Oldest Man Famous For His Penguin Sweaters Passes Away Alfie Date, who became an internet sensation after knitting sweaters for penguins in need ...

6. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   For example, the dimensions of two size 10 dresses from different companies, or even from the same company, may have grossly different dimensions; and both are almost certainly larger than the size 10 dimensions described in the US standard. Vanity sizing may be partly responsible for this deviation (which began in earnest in the 1980s).

7. Aran jumper - Wikipedia

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   The first commercially available Aran knitting patterns were published in the 1940s by Patons of England. Vogue magazine carried articles on the garment in the 1950s, and jumper exports from the west of Ireland to the United States began in the early 1950s. Standun in Spiddal, Co.Galway was the first to export the Aran sweater to the USA.