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...High-end designers are chasing the booming children's-wear and children's-furniture markets with ever more stylish fare. Already companies like Bottega Veneta, Tod's and D&G have been creating apparel and leather goods for tots, and J. Crew is entering the field with tiny Argyle cardigans. In response to increasing demand for baby furniture that "flows with the rest of the house," the home-furnishings website Nurseryworks has commissioned midcentury modern-style cribs, above, changing tables and rocking chairs from California-based designers Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning of Lawson-Fenning, as well as graphic bedding...
...like plaid lumberjack shirts and brightly colored blankets. And that isn't likely to change, despite stiff competition from China, where textile quotas are about to be lifted. Although Levi's 501s, Fruit of the Loom briefs and Pillowtex pillows are no longer "Made in America," this Pacific Northwest apparel maker has found a way to continue weaving woolens here at home. Knowing it can't compete against overseas firms on low cost or mass scale, the private company has kept a foothold in the U.S. by producing limited runs of high-end, upscale fabrics for niche markets. "The work...
Pendleton, however, has not been immune to the pressures of outsourcing. After holding off for years, the company produces half its apparel in the U.S. and half in Mexico, Central America and even China. There have been plant shutdowns and layoffs; with 800 employees, Pendleton is half the size it was a decade ago. "We're realists," Bishop says. "If you can't be competitive, you have to change. We've had to make some difficult decisions...
...public library held a symposium on dumb blondes two years ago. This past summer, an Australian grad student won a grant—$17,000 a year for three years—to get to the root of the dumb-blonde myth. You can even purchase apparel from a line of clothes called “A smart blonde” (which, I know, is meant to be empowering, but really, do we need the qualifier?). Carol Channing made a career out of playing a dumb blonde. “I didn’t have to be bright...
...Tannery, a Brattle Street apparel shop whose business has been on the rise since Head of the Charles, saw sales climb 25 percent from last Thanksgiving, manager Andrew Hampshire said...