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...week, after a three-month battle, Jarman added another company to his shopping bag; for $27 million, he bought control of S. H. Kress & Co., a national chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already has 1,500 outlets (including Manhattan's Bonwit Teller), nowadays is as flamboyant as its boss is unpretentious. A devout Baptist deacon, Jarman neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, often begins stockholders meetings with a prayer. He is noted for working his employees hard-and why not? How else will they ever acquire the 30 pairs of shoes that...
...pell-mell since 1938 by buying up 46 companies. Today it operates 80 factories in 17 states, manufactures 51 brands of shoes from Flagg Bros, to Mannequin, makes Griffon men's clothes and Formfit girdles, and sells its wares through 1,500 Genesco-owned retail stores, including the Bonwit Teller chain. From its sprawling empire, Genesco last year drew profits of $8,900,000 on sales of $443 million...
...against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries Harper's Bazaar. For if simply everyone has a plain old mink coat, hardly anyone has a mink-lined raincoat. Or a mink coat modeled after an officer's reefer ($7,800, Bonwit Teller). Or a pure-white double-breasted mink blouse ($2,600, Bonwit Teller). Or a dark ranch mink suit ($2,000, Fredrica Furs). Or a loose-belted polo coat ($4,950, Hattie Carnegie...
After the war, Fifth Avenue's Bonwit Teller invited them in to set up their own custom-order salon; with their family connections and friends in New York and Washington, Nona and Sophie found it easy to build a clientele. It was at Bonwit's in the early '50s that the wife of Senator Jack Kennedy began buying some of their clothes. Two years ago, they moved out to a new place of their own on Park Avenue. Jackie moved with them, and so did such customers as Mrs. William Paley, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Charles...
...favorite "at home" costume during the day is a comfortable robe; she picks them up for about $12.95 apiece in Manhattan. She buys her underwear in the U.S. "because it is so much better than in Europe. You go into Bonwit Teller and buy a girdle, size small, and you get it home and it fits. It's unbelievable! Incredible! You can't do this in Europe!" It is not so simple with hats, however, which "must be made on your head. A ready-made hat will not be you. While I am sitting for a dress...