Word: appareled
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...range of styles, colors and materials was wide. But prices were higher (shoes, hats, suits were up as much as 10% over 1946). And sales were slipping. Average dollar volume in Manhattan's apparel stores was off only about 1%. Yet this was enough to worry many a merchant with high inventory because it meant that unit sales were considerably under last year's. Said a salesgirl in high-hatted Hattie Carnegie's: "A woman who bought six hats last year will buy only four this year." (Hattie Carnegie's "popular" price...
...special treat for neighborhood children who still thrill at the sight of a red cap and a white beard at Christmas times, PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn donned the gay apparel for 19 youngsters, who watched a magician while lapping up holiday refreshments...
...from Nothing. The prediction has much basis in fact. Of some 1,000 members of its No. 1 trade association (California Apparel Creators), only 23 have been established more than 25 years. In Los Angeles alone, 50 new ones have moved in during the past year. They came from everywhere. Fred Cole, one of the richest in the industry, is a former cinemactor; Miss Johnson is a former singer who took to snipping only three years ago. One of the oldest, Joe Zukin, is an ex-cattle rancher. Also included: an ex-lawyer, ex-teacher, ex-druggist, ex-jockey...
...matter of charity, for the offending apparel had been bought by Iranian merchants in the U.S. and shipped to colleagues at home for resale. But Azerbaijan, while praising Franklin Roosevelt and his Lend-Lease, saw, under Truman, an evil policy shift for a sinister motive. The new U.S. line, said Azerbaijan, was "restriction of world trade to American monopoly, thus giving the Americans an opportunity to sell their secondhand clothes...
...Drop the OPA and watch such scarce items as men's suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately slash prices when they know they can all get and maintain higher prices. True, after a period of time, supply equaling demand, prices will take care of themselves without regulation. But in the interim the consumer would take a sound beating...