Word: appareled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to his beef on the interference call he got riled up in the third when his pitcher was forced to change shoes. Bornstein was sporting the Joe Namath 'white shoe' look through the first two innings before Park made a protest to the umpire. The rules prohibit such apparel on a pitcher...
Rich Wrinkles. The basic elements are similar from designer to designer as they appear in popular ready-to-wear apparel: the tennis sweater, often with a matching long cardigan; three-piece suits in white or pale flannel or muted plaids; wide-legged baggy pants, cuffed or pleated or both; pin-stripe shirts with big butterfly bow ties; and two-tone spectator shoes, all for both sexes. Daytime wear for women relies on little white pleated skirts ending just above the knee, and small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon...
...Levine, president of Manhattan-based Capitol Dress Co., foresees a day perhaps ten years off when the industry will vanish from New York altogether. He may be too pessimistic, but Saul Nimowitz, director of New York City's Office of Apparel Industry Planning and Development, asserts: 'The middle-sized Manhattan dressmaker has been the backbone of the city's $7 billion garment industry, and he is the one who cannot survive today. The big conglomerates have enough money to move out of town, and the one-sewing-machine people can operate in a closet. In between, forget...
...work for black people in the garment center, almost all of it menial. But black designers were rare-and might still be had not the garment district been in economic doldrums for the past few years. To recapture the interest of hip young customers, the moguls of the apparel industry have been turning to younger designers, both black and white-and, some blacks say, ripping off the flamboyant styles that have long been part of ghetto life. Says Susan Taylor, black fashion editor of Essence magazine: "I could swear that the white folks on Seventh Avenue have been taking tours...
...world's largest producer and retailer of apparel, Nashville-based Genesco is a family business run with Tennessee savvy by W. (for Walton) Maxey Jarman and his son Franklin, 40. It was a proud day for Maxey when, at 65, he turned over the chairmanship to Franklin three years ago. Quipped Franklin then: "Dad is getting out at a good time...