Word: appareled
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...enter a clothing market that is rapidly coming to realize that nobody wants to spend real money on clothes these days. U.S. retail sales are depressed, and Christmas sales will probably be flat -- at best. The picture looks no prettier in Europe. In fashion- conscious Italy, for example, apparel sales are expected to decline 12% in 1991. The one striking exception seems to prove the rule: in the U.S., sales at the Gap, purveyor of $19 cotton turtlenecks and $28.50 sweat pants, are running 30% above last year...
...apparel business, though, no trend lasts forever. "The bridge market has already got crowded," says Peter Brown, a vice president at Kurt Salmon Associates, a New York consulting firm. A shakeout is probably coming, and soon...
Doth this ignorant Fellowe Lane know not of ye immemorial Recreations and prerogatives of ye Gentlemen and Lady Scholars of ye College? When, ye sight of god not being before their Eyes, they indulge in Fornication they care not for Blood-Sports or Apparel, pursuing instead ye naked Caeds per se (and ye Caeds ye Scholars inter se) in the State of Eve and Adam before ye Expulsion. So far from being an eftimable "popular College Tementa," both Genders despise these Garments as a fully most vicarious and insane...
Another point which needs to be made is that fact that the merchants in Harvard Square who used to carry our line, have all expressed the importance, to them, of the "Coed Naked" product to the Harvard committee. That fact is, that "Coed Naked" apparel was one of the top selling items for Cambridge merchants. It is a shame that the licensing committee is denying these merchants a proven winner (not to mention denying the Harvard student body a popular college momento...
...Karen Glance, 36, it came down to all those little packets of shampoo. She remembers the morning she opened her bathroom cabinet in St. Paul and counted 150 that had followed her home from hotels in dozens of cities. Says the former apparel executive: "I was a workaholic, a crazy, crazy woman. I was on a plane four times a week. I just wanted to get to the top. All of a sudden, I realized that I was reaching that goal but I wasn't happy. A year would go by and I wouldn't know what had happened...