Word: apparel
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...sometimes fall silent. Their clothes, on the other hand, never shut up. In her first work of nonfiction, Novelist Alison Lurie contends that clothing even has a complete grammar, a complex syntax and a large vocabulary. The accent, however, is rarely standard English. In Lurie's view, our apparel often speaks in the spicy euphemisms of a stand-up comic or trumpets the dim promises of a politician. The author has previously parodied social-and sexual-intercourse in her novels (The War Between the Tates, The Nowhere City, Real People and Only Children) . In The Language of Clothes...
...Heel spirit pervades the UNC campus. It's more than just the tangibles like the insignia apparel that dots the walkways, much more than the Veritas emblems up here in the Yard. It's everywhere--Tar Heel blue telephones, toilets, bathroom tile, awnings, bleachers, bumper stickers, and even the Tar Hell blue walls of the Carmichael Auditorium...
...entire day when customers, getting wind of a fresh shipment of sweats, noisily stormed her portals. In the Chicago area, Kamali fans maintain an informal hot line on where her clothes can be found. "Kamali is going beyond anyone's imagination," says Sidney Kimmel, chairman of Jones Apparel Group, which makes her sport sweat line. "When we started getting reorders from Midwest counties not known to jump on a fad, we saw she was a universal trend." Adds Jeff Gersten, co-owner of Chicago's Sugar Magnolia boutique: "Just as there are Bruce Springsteen heads, there...
...from foreign imports. The U.S. steel industry, for example, is already hard hit. Since January steel shipments from West Germany, Japan and other competitors have jumped 45%. Foreign companies have now captured 17.5% of the American steel market. .Other industries expected to be hurt by rising imports include autos, apparel, machine tools and consumer electronics. Former Treasury Official Bergsten fears that unless the dollar weakens, up to 1 million Americans will lose their jobs...
...although its coverage is centered on current men's fashion developments it also features fitness news, grooming tips, audio rundowns, features, etc. etc." Originally founded in 1928 as a fashion booklet displayed in men's clothing stores, it became a full-fledged magazine in 1931 under the auspices of Apparel Arts. Inc. Apparel Arts eventually became so successful that it started Esquire, which in the late 1950s, turned around and swallowed GQ altogether. Then in 1979 Conde and Nash bought the operation, and they run it to this day. Conde and Nash also publish Vogue, House and Garden Glamour...