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Sporting-goods dealers discovered that: 1) "all baseball equipment" was removed from price controls, except balls, mitts, gloves, bats, apparel and shoes; 2) "all tennis equipment" except rackets, balls, apparel and shoes; 3) "all football equipment" except apparel, shoes, helmets, pads and footballs...
Shopping Tour. A record number of buyers from U.S. retail stores swarmed into Manhattan's apparel markets last week. With them were fabric buyers for the automobile manufacturers. Neither found much...
Meanwhile the U.S. consumer was not being very helpful. U.S. income payments in December had reached an all-time high of $14.4 billion, and the consumers seemed to be less concerned than OPA about the cost of clothing. In New York City wearing-apparel sales during the week of Feb. 10 were 22% higher than a year ago; department-store sales all over the U.S. were up the same amount...
...convention-wise Chicago, the pattern of last week's annual Spring & Summer Apparel Market and Gift Show was familiar enough. Some 4,000 buyers of women's and children's apparel and accessories, gifts, china, etc., for the nation's big & little stores crowded hotel lobbies and trooped through bedroom suites made over into salesrooms. As usual, they scrutinized the tall, leggy models and sailed into the free drinks. But times had changed; they were not really enjoying themselves...
...Government's virtual ban on convention travel (deadline, Feb. 1) made this convention the last such gathering any of the buyers would attend until the transportation crisis eases. They were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume...