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He'd felt himself instead to be perishing of everything"Oh, a hundred and twenty skins," he replied
She continued taking notes as she asked, "They come right to your shipping department?"
"They come to the tanneryThe tannery is a contractorWe buy the material and then we give it to them, and we give them the process to use and then they convert it into leather for usMy grandfather and my father worked in the tannery right here in NewarkSo did I, for six months, when I started in the businessEver been inside a tannery?"
"Not yet
"Well, you've got to go to a tannery if you're going to write about leatherI'll set that up for you if you'd like thatThey're primitive coco chanel earrings placesThe technology has improved things, but what you'll see isn't that different from what you would have seen hundreds of years agoSaid to be the oldest industry of which relics have been found anywhereSix-thousand-year-old relics of tanning found somewhere--Turkey, I believeFirst clothing was just skins that were tanned by smoking themI told you it was an interesting subject once you get into itMy father is the leather scholarHe's who you should be talking to, but he's living in Florida nowStart my father off about gloves and he'll talk for two days runningThat's typical, by the wayGlovemen love the trade and everything about itTell me, have you ever seen anything manufactured, gucci backpacks Miss Cohen?"
"I can't say I have
"Never seen anything made?"
"Saw my mother make a cake when I was a kidShe had made him laughA feisty innocent, eager to learnHis daughter was easily a foot taller than Rita Cohen, fair where she was dark, but otherwise Rita Cohen, homely little thing though she was, had begun to remind him of Merry before her repugnance set in and she began to become their enemyThe good-natured intelligence that would just waft out of her and into the house when she came home from school overbrimming with what she'd learned in classHow she remembered everythingEverything neatly taken down in her notebook and memorized overnight
"I'll tell you what we're picasso cartier going to doWe're going to bring you right through the whole processWe're going to make you a pair of gloves and you're going to watch them being made from start to finishWhat size do you wear?"
"I don't know
He'd gotten up from the desk and come around and taken hold of her handI'm guessing you're a four He'd already got from the top drawer of his desk a measuring tape with a D ring at one end, and now he put it around her hand, threaded the other end through the D ring, and pulled the tape around her palm"We'll see what kind of guesser I am She made a fist, causing the hand to slightly expand, and he read the size in French inchesIn a ladies' size that's as small as they chanel cambon bag comeAnything smaller is a child'sI'll show you how it's done
He felt as though he'd stepped right back into the mouth of the past as they started, side by side, up the wooden steps of the old stairwellHe heard himself telling her (while simultaneously hearing his father telling her), "You always sort your skins at the northern side of the factory, where there's no direct sunlightThat way you can really study the skins for qualityWhere the sunlight comes in you can't seeThe cutting room and the sorting, always on the northern sideThe second floor the cuttingAnd the first floor, where you came, the makingBottom floor finishing and shippingWe're going to work our way from the top chloe bag bay dow