The girls then are asked to drape their bodies with shawls or sheets of cloth in which they naturally feel quite awkward.
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The province had extensive wool-based manufacture-blankets, shawls and carpets.
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Of the major wool-using sectors, neither carpets, nor shawls, nor the better quality blankets or woollen garments, could utilize the common wool of the plains.
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They usually wore the (tribal)shawland headband.
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When they went outdoors, the wrapper was covered with ashawl.
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With shawls, then, the novel again gives us three of something for no apparent reason.
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Sarah always wore a hand-knittedshawlaround her shoulders.
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Neither ascribing beauty to an article of clothing nor making theshawlan object with character and personality was new, but the context of these rhetorical strategies was.
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Like the "flowers" that animate the shawls and the people - inventors, artisans, operatives - behind the machines, the dies are a source of individual character in and on the buttons.
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Men play a peculiar role in the novelistic acquisition of shawls: they not only pay for them, but frequently procure them as well.
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Poor women, however, were assumed to wear shawls of domestic manufacture made of wool or cotton.
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Giver her a flaxen cloth and a coarseshawlto wear.
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If they cannot wear shawls, why cannot they wear diamonds and pearls?
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They used to be pictured as going to their work with shawls on their heads and clogs on their feet.
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To-day you cannot find a girl with ashawlor a pair of clogs.
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