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Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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John Millard <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:50:49 -0400
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Millard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Worldwide pants <fwd>
Sender: John Millard <[log in to unmask]>



On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

> The erstwhile president of the Australian Map Circle is the proud possessor
> of some made-in-Fiji trousers, which feature what looks like an antique
> map-printed material as the waist lining. However, after he displayed the
> inside of his pants at our last conference, we have formed the opinion that
> the map in question is not a map of anywhere in particular, but an imaginary
> planet.
> Has anyone else come across this particular pant-lining map? I am intrigued

I'm not wearing them today so I can't confirm, but I believe I have a pair
of Savane pants sold here in the US that have just such an imaginary map
in the waist lining.  Of course, I just figured it was a map of New
Jersey. :-)

-John
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  John Millard
  Information Services Librarian - Geographic Information Systems
  Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056-1878
  More Information: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~millarj/
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