William Fioravanti, New York tailor to the world's best-upholstered gentlemen, is explaining what he can do for a customer using some of the newest, plushest worsteds on the market. "I could run you up a nice suit of super-180s for around $7,500," he mentions casually. "Understand, $3,000 of the price is solely for the cloth." You expect the customer to faint dead away right there, but he doesn't. One Fioravanti client just bought seven of them. What is this wondrous fiber that sounds like a comic book hero? Speaking of which, haven't you been hearing about other, similar-sounding fabrics, all starting with "super" and some numerical designation? What is going on?
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