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...housing boom, which lifted sales of higher-priced, higher-profit items like appliances and home furnishings, durable goods sales are up a hefty 31% from November of last year. Clothing sales are also strong because the old mini-midi-maxi battle is over, opening the way for more apparel sales to women. More important, because double knits and other new fashions are catching on, men have been buying more clothes this fall than last...
...troubled textile industry, double knit clothes-apparel made of specially knitted material instead of woven cloth-stand out like a bright golden thread in a frayed gray shawl. The upheaval caused by double knits has brought fresh earnings and excitement to the industry, created new textile firms and technology, provided a rich source of sales for profit-parched merchants, and satisfied restless consumer demand for increasingly varied fashions...
...patches on worn or torn clothing were a mark of poverty, or at least of thrift. The patch has come a long way since then. Today it is colorful, clever, artistic and even ideological. Whether to hide holes on worn clothing or simply to adorn brand-new apparel-especially denim jeans and jackets-patching is the bright...
...thoroughness of research and effort that went into your story, "Japan: Winning the Most Important Battle" [May 10], is abundantly obvious from the results. This achievement makes it all the more difficult to understand how the same article could blithely condemn the American textile-apparel industry as "not vital to the economy...
...textile-apparel complex in the U.S. provides employment for 2.4 million people-one out of every eight manufacturing employees. It has annual sales of $21 billion. It purchases millions of dollars worth of natural and man-made fibers, dyes, chemicals, electrical power, machinery and construction. It provides, proportionately, more employment for women than any other industry. If the lives and jobs of textile-apparel workers are "vital," so too are the industries which support them...