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"textContent": "Mathematicians say they've confirmed an age-old rule of fashion: that trendy women's styles get recycled every 20 years or so. For the study out of Northwestern University , researchers pulled together a database of some 37,000 garments spanning nearly 160 years, combining archival sewing patterns with runway images dating to...",
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