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...reasoning,” he wrote, “to raise the temperatures inside the living environments to the point where the most comfortable apparel choices are shorts and t-shirts.” Further research involving thermometers from the chemistry lab revealed the true level of Greenough’s warmth—up to 76° in some rooms, a temperature which might have made even Jimmy Carter remove his cardigan...
High-end designers are chasing the booming children's-wear and children's-furniture markets with ever more stylish fare. Already companies like Bottega Veneta, Tod's and D&G have been creating apparel and leather goods for tots, and J. Crew is entering the field with tiny Argyle cardigans. In response to increasing demand for baby furniture that "flows with the rest of the house," the home-furnishings website Nurseryworks has commissioned midcentury modern--style cribs, above, changing tables and rocking chairs from California-based designers Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning of Lawson-Fenning, as well as graphic bedding...
...betting that companies like sports-apparel giant Nike will incorporate its service into their business. Already, every couple of hours Nike sends a batch of orders from Nike.com to a UPS facility in Kentucky. Within minutes a UPS employee using a state-of-the-art radio-frequency bar-code reader, grabs the item--usually made in Asia and delivered directly to UPS--off the shelf. The product, often a pair of Nike's famous shoes, is then quality checked by another UPS employee, carefully packed and sent out the door within 24 hours. "While Nike is researching how to make...
...honest, a lot of the reason we [provide the apparel] is the relationship—Coop to Harvard,” Murphy said. “We do a lot of things more for relationship than for money. It’s been a good relationship; I think the athletic department’s happy, we’re happy and hopefully students and alumni are happy because they get the product...
...Harvard apparel sold by The Coop is subject to licensing approval by Harvard, and Russell Athletic and Nike secure those permissions on their own, as well as handle royalty payments. The Coop buys the finished product after all of those bureaucratic hoops are cleared...