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  • Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback.

    Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011

  • Textiles have a long history of inventive brand titles; Nylon is an amalgam of New York and London while Crimplene comes from the valley of the Crimple beck which was overlooked by ICI's old research labs in Harrogate.

    Fancy that - a computer bag which keeps the machine powered up 2011

  • Textiles have a long history of inventive brand titles; Nylon is an amalgam of New York and London while Crimplene comes from the valley of the Crimple beck which was overlooked by ICI's old research labs in Harrogate.

    Fancy that - a computer bag which keeps the machine powered up 2011

  • I found a beauty in Crimplene, of all things, yesterday, and one more in Irish linen.

    Quick! Check this out ... - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Until the squadron got hold of him, he used to go everywhere in Crimplene safari jackets and trousers that stopped just short of his ankles.

    Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

  • If he hadn't been in the Regiment, he would have been a yuppie or a spy -- albeit in a Crimplene suit.

    Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

  • The irony bites deeper when Dad, remote and bad-tempered, falls for Mrs Potter, who lives on a council estate, wears Crimplene and is a fabulous cook.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • The irony bites deeper when Dad, remote and bad-tempered, falls for Mrs Potter, who lives on a council estate, wears Crimplene and is a fabulous cook.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a greyhaired old lady in plimsolls, wearing Crimplene trousers and a comfortable cardigan.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Once we'd have been condemned to join the blue-rinse brigade, swathed in ubiquitous Crimplene, wearing sensible shoes and tut-tutting at a mini-skirted "tarts" with bleached blonde hair and false eyelashes.

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2010

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