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Ever since 1977, when the U.S. began importing men's knit shirts, men's and women's trousers, other apparel and textiles from China in large quantities, the volume has been rising sharply. During the first eleven months of last year, China sold $827 million worth of textiles to the U.S., up 30% from 1981. The country ranks as the fourth-largest textile exporter to the U.S., behind Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Unlike those other three, which have agreed to limit the growth rate of their major textile shipments to 1% per year, China...
Sharon Otten, 40, an apparel saleswoman in Anaheim, Calif, knows a good deal when she sees one. When she discovered an automobile dealer's coupon in the Orange County Yellow Pages offering $100 off the price of a new or used car, she was not content to let her fingers do the walking. Instead, Otten went from door to door, besieging relatives, friends and strangers to give her the coupons from their phone books. She even got one from her mother-in-law. When she had collected 91, she offered them to Dealer Scott Nowling after bargaining with...
...almost everything, from television sets to dinnerware to cameras and video games, Belgian waffle makers, foot massagers, pots, pans, cutlery and apparel of all kinds. So far at least, the drumfire of discounting is having the desired impact of making at least some stores busy. But much of what is happening so far this season is flash without great substance, chiefly because of the sales. Says Michael Evans, a private economist in Washington: "Consumers are buying more, but they're spending less...
...freely." Adds Richard D. McRae Jr., executive vice president of the twelve-store McRae's department-store chain based in Jackson, Miss.: "We have seen a big improvement in sales in the past three to seven weeks. There has been an across-the-board increase of 20% in apparel, which is about 80% of our business...
...States, and the American lady executive whose clothes were made in Italy, are in a sense imaginary citizens of Los Angeles and Rome, and may be expected to manifest some of the traits associated with these cities." Of course, some people simply do not care what their apparel says about them: ''An article may be worn because it is warm or rainproof or handy to cover up a wet bathing suit-in the same way that persons of limited vocabulary use the phrase 'you know' or adjectives such as 'great' or 'fantastic...