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Thanks to the gods of fashion who have decreed its trendiness, cashmere for men and women can be found at just about every retailer across the country this season. (Holt Renfrew, Banana Republic, Eaton’s, Harry Rosen, you name it.) With the advent of private label, you can get your downy goat-fibre sweaters cheap ($125 to $250), or you can go for Italian and English gold ($400 to $2,500). A sliver of the stuff, in the form of a cashmere muffler, runs about $135, say both Rosen and Martha Fruchet, Holt Renfrew’s personal shopper. The Rolls Royce version is called a pashimina, a scarf made from an Indian silk and cashmere mix, as delicious as the name sounds ($225 to $395). Cashmere robes – and really, why would you ever leave home if you had one? – run about $1,000. For the aspiring Hollywood mogul, there is cashmere loungewear, otherwise known as "sweats" when executed in cotton (about $570). Fruchet says their terry cloth robes for both men and women are popular (at $100). (Hey, cotton can be luxe, too.) ... more...
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