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...fashions is partly to blame. While midis are beginning to catch on in some cities, most women are simply sitting out the battle of the hemlines. At week's end Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans reported to President Nixon that Christmas sales were "fairly brisk" and that apparel was moving well. The Secretary took pains to note an upsurge in the sale of women's pantsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business: The Christmas Consumer as Scrooge | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Food was the fastest riser in September's index. The second largest jump occurred in women's apparel, partly because, in addition to its other disadvantages, the midi is expensive. Presidential Economic Adviser Paul McCracken took some comfort in reporting that the rate of rise in the consumer price index has declined slightly quarter to quarter, despite the September increase. On the other hand, the more comprehensive price index, the so-called G.N.P. deflator, rose from the second quarter to the third quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prices: Back on the Treadmill | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...other labels. There was great inconsistency in quality, much overlap in material, and generally poor promotion. Television, meanwhile, feared that the public couldn't digest the sexual overtones of Ike and Tina's music. (Their image was a bit raunchier than it now, particularly after Tina discovered see-through apparel in Paris.) When Shindig considered them for a show, the head of ABC said No, Tina was too wild-although, as Ike protests, neither Tina nor the Ikettes "ever bumps or grinds. Their hips only move from side to side." After various Hollywood agencies pressured the network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming Together With Ike and Tina Turner | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

...picks up gossip by mixing with the Beautiful People at night and attending the parties that Fairchild shuns. In fact, the entire staff of WWD is expected to keep a lookout for potential "Eye" specks, whether they regularly cover the BP scene or a trade beat like "intimate apparel" (known in the pre-Fairchild era as "girdles and bras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out on a Limb with the Midi | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...Pompidou owned the boat." Besides, he said, in what sounded like an afterthought, "it is not an unflattering picture." More important for Mercury, there was all that free publicity resulting from the fuss. Nor was the publicity lost on other advertisers. For example, officials of the Lacoste apparel-and-toiletries firm surely noticed that their trademark, a curve-tailed crocodile, was sewn onto Pompidou's sports shirt. Lacoste, at least, is French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: France's Model President | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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