Word: apparel
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Abercrombie's apparel is functional, but all that flannel smacks of Middelbury, Amherst and Williams, not the sophisticated image we in the Square like to maintain. More importantly, without local access to Express, where will the clubhoppers among us buy their form-fitting black pants and satin camisoles...
...MADE IN THE U.S.A. label despite having no U.S. content and no U.S. labor in its assembly, puts the Northern Marianas on a par as an exporter with countries like Canada and Thailand. Competition from this territory has contributed to the loss of more than 100,000 U.S. apparel jobs over the past two years. And in 1998 the U.S. taxpayer will lose $250 million in revenue forgone on tariffs. How much longer can we afford to let the N.M.I. abuse its territorial status? JOHN M. SPRATT JR., U.S. Representative 5th District, South Carolina Washington...
...dozen tiny African-Americanowned labels are beginning to steal some of their cool. And even a little bit of cool can be worth it: it may look like merely oversize jeans and hooded sweatshirts, but the $5 billion male urban-clothing niche is growing faster than any other apparel category except, perhaps, lingerie. And how long before Hilfiger offers low-slung panties with his name on the butt...
...form a convincing ensemble, but the black jacket, cherry skirt and purple print blouse that Catherine sports when walking in the door from New York decidedly fail to convey a sense of a city sophisticate. The overall effect is as if the actors had raided their closets for unworn apparel. (The actors' brogues are similarly patched together; although vaguely European, most of these accents are not from the Emerald Isle...
...frosty hills of Hanover, NH against Dartmouth is for the current Harvard generation to savor for the ages. And before blindly herding ourselves onto shuttles heading to New Haven on November 22--en route to watching a slaughter of a helpless, rebuilding Eli squad--anyone proud to wear crimson apparel ought to drive, take the bus, bike, jog or crawl (even hitchhike, damn it!) up north tonight or tomorrow with the intention of swarming the visitors' sideline and cheering the team to a tremendous victory over the obnoxious Big Green...