It felt as if the country had been wrapped up in the cotton-wool of establishment etiquette.

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Outlier recently updated the OGs with some subtle improvements but, just like the old ones, they are an entirely synthetic superversion of office-ready wool or cotton twill trousers.

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Nearly all his pieces fall into the Beluch category of tribal rugs, meaning they have short wool pile secured by a wool-and-cotton foundation and average 60 to 100 knots per square inch.

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Whereas some reasons behind the parental "cotton wool culture" are not based in logic - most sexual molestation occurs in the home, for example, not in parks - the one "genuine massive danger" is traffic.

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And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.

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Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".

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