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Oxxford Clothes is a luxury men's suit and sport coat manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. Individualized Apparel Group currently owns the brand. [1] Forbes magazine has rated Oxxford as the best American-made suit. [2] Oxxford Clothes was called "the quintessential American suit maker" by Robb Report. [3]
Bicast leather (also spelled as bi-cast leather or bycast leather) is a material made with a split leather backing covered with an embossed layer of polyurethane or vinyl. Bicast leather was originally made for the apparel industry for glossy shoes, and was later adopted by the furniture industry.
The Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “ leather , kink , BDSM , and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement."
In 1882, the National League assigned stocking colors to the member clubs: red for Boston, white for Chicago, gray for Buffalo, blue for Worcester, gold for Detroit, green for Troy, and so on. [3] That year, the league also assigned jersey and cap colors, but by player position rather than by club.
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About 85% of the leather at Horween Leather Company is made from cowhide. [2] The company's workers take raw hides, which arrive salted to prevent deterioration, trim them, and remove their hair with chemicals in an extremely large washing drum. The leather is then treated with salt and pickled for 24 hours, so that it reaches a desired pH level.
It can be assumed that the animal skins were used for clothing throughout the human history, although in the ways that are primitive when compared to the modern processing, the earliest known samples come from Ötzi the Iceman (late 4th millennium BC) with his goatskin clothes made from leather strips put together using sinews, bearskin hat, and shoes using the deerskin for the uppers and ...
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