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What do a lecturer for Weight Watchers, a saleslady for Hallmark Cards and a hostess at a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge have in common? They are all doing their jobs dressed in specially designed "career apparel" or "corporate clothing." These are the latest euphemisms for work uniforms that once were confined to the blue-collar set, and are now the vogue in a growing number of white-collar jobs, especially those held by women...
...trend toward chic corporate pantsuits, miniskirts and even hot pants was, until a few years ago, confined largely to airline and rent-a-car hostesses. Now, career apparel may even be seen on leasing agents and telephone operators. One manufacturer clothes the employees of a city water-and-light department, an ornamental-iron company and a war veterans' nursing home...
Board policy; the most difficult hurdles are now behind it. In the past two years, contracts covering about 4.75 million workers came up for renewal. This year the number is 2.8 million, and negotiations are in such noncritical areas as apparel, retail trade and transportation equipment. The major imponderable now is the reaction of Harry Bridges' West Coast dock workers, who have yet to approve or reject the Pay Board settlement. If they thumb it down, a real crisis could follow, and the Administration would have to go to Congress for new strike-restraining legislation to keep the wharves...
...necktie is not only the most useless item of apparel [Jan. 31]; it is also the most uncomfortable-a constant noose around a man's neck. The ladies are welcome to "strike back" as much as they wish...
...contest to single out the single most useless item of apparel, the necktie wins in a walk. At best, it adds a modest splash of color to the Adam's apple; at worst, it makes a wearer appear to have been the recent victim of a mad tracheotomist. But with the coming of high-heeled shoes and shoulder purses for men, it seemed impossible that the ladies would not strike back. Now they have: in the gilded salons of Manhattan, London and Paris, the flouncy belles of yesteryear are turning out in man-tailored jackets, fly-front trousers...