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    LIGHTER SHADE OF MALE

    Oct 12, 2018 4 minutes

    by nick scott photography jake walters fashion direction jo grzeszczuk

    The camel is an ungainly beast. ‘A horse designed by a committee,’ as one proverb goes, it compares to its distant equine cousin as one of The Beatles’ satin Sgt. Pepper suits does to a close-cut, single-breasted in sober graphite from a topnotch Milanese sartoria. When it comes to parents in Windowlicker, Alabama wanting their children to be taught intelligent design in school, lawyers acting for the scientific community should just shelve all paleontological, genetic and zoological evidence, and instead lead an aging Bactrian before the judge.

    So it’s richly ironic that the camel hair, and especially its pale, sandy hue, has given so much

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