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...phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen's day, uncomfortable skirts and high heels are staging a comeback, and they remain symbols of the female's role among the elite...
...Basically, we stay in the same place; we stick to basic, practical footwear and apparel," Andrews insists. "All that happens is people get interested from time to time." The Bean family remembers 1976 as an embarrassing year; that's when it won a Coty award from the fashion industry. And then, "in 1979, the beginning of 1980, this preppy thing began to happen...It's just one of those things. For a little while, people come in and touch where we are. We stay in the same place...
...like "a real man." It's startling to see Serrault in overalls, sticking out his jaw, adopting a simian gait and snarling "Faggot!" at a rude driver. Later, when the aggressively hetero band of agents wants to guard the couple while remaining inconspicuous, they don dresses and uni-sex apparel. Renato teaching the tough guys how to walk effeminately creates a wonderful parallel to the scene in the first La Cage in which he tried to show Albin how to "eat with masculinity...
DIED. W. Maxey Jarman, 76, former chairman and chief executive of Genesco, who by 1969 had expanded his father's shoe business into the world's largest apparel conglomerate; after a long illness; in Nashville...
...Henri Bendel started in 1890 had fallen out of step with fast-changing fashions. It was on the "wrong" side of Fifth Avenue and was losing a staggering $1.5 million a year on sales of $3 million. W. Maxey Jarman, then chairman of Ge-nesco, Inc., a Nashville-based apparel conglomerate, snapped up the indebted store and turned it over to an unlikely boss: Geraldine Stutz, a onetime model and shoe editor at Glamour, who had successfully run the advertising for Genesco's I. Miller shoe stores. After reluctantly deciding to accept the job, Stutz swept through Bendel like...