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...nondurable goods have begun to climb after mid-1960 dips. While new orders are still running behind retail sales, the forecasting firm figures that they are reverting to the closely similar pattern the two have held for years (see chart), and expects a further rise. It also feels that apparel sales are bound to turn upward. Reason: they have kept pace for years with disposable income, which is now well above sales. Said Commodity Corp.'s President J. Carvel Lange: "Recent behavior of new orders and sales-a favorable relation of orders to sales, with both in a rising...
...lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother!" to his wife. She lived in the White House from the time of Ike's first inauguration until 1957, when she returned to Denver in failing health...
...each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling to third place, according to a retail buyers' survey made by the Boys' Apparel Buyers' Association and the Clothing Manufacturers Association of the U.S.A...
...scraped together $25,000, sent out a crude, twelve-page catalogue of wearing apparel to 250,000 refugees picked from card indexes. His prices were aimed at the low-budget housewife-and the housewives liked what they got. Within eight months Neckermann was doing a $2.4 million a year business...
Installment buying is one of the major causes of the phenomenon, along with the changing habits of U.S. consumers. They no longer hold on to suits, coats and dresses as if they were heirlooms; determined promotion campaigns keep apparel one of the hottest selling items. Furniture, refrigerators, rugs-all once bought to last for years or life-are now replaced with register-tingling regularity...