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In the countryside, the Mayan women still wear the traditional huipile, a loose cotton slip with embroidered detail; the everyday version has stitching around the neckline and hem, the ceremonial version several layers of embroidery and lace.
But the most perfect garment is a sleeveless black dress of tough synthetic net, ornamented with inspired beading and delicate black leather appliqués that rise from the hem in black flames (maybe seaweed) around the thighs and pelvis and descend from the neckline in uneven black clusters of grapes (maybe clouds) over the breasts and shoulders.
At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.
Wise to what really makes a good employee at that age, they're much more likely to hem and haw about that summer you spent watching the tube instead of taking a good internship than they are to have doubts about your D in organic chemistry.
The polite forms may still be hem and haw , but the polite forms are from a bygone era.