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Spurred by the weak dollar, foreign companies have become some of the most aggressive acquisitors. After Campeau took over Allied in 1986, he spun off some of its divisions to other foreign firms. Australia's Hooker Corp. bought Bonwit Teller from Allied, and Britain's Marks & Spencer agreed to buy Brooks Brothers...
Faced with those figures, some of the world's flossiest manufacturers are reaching out to the bigger customers with cashmere and silks, gabardines and fine cottons. Last year Designer Albert Nipon sold $5 million worth of his new Dimensions line, for sizes 12 to 24, to such stores as Bonwit Teller, Dillard's and Marshall Field's. Givenchy anticipates wholesale sales of $4 million this season for its pricey Givenchy en Plus line in sizes...
...sale: five huge American shopping centers, from New Jersey to Washington State, and 691 stores spread all over the country, including the famed Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller chains. No retailing experience necessary. Foreigners welcome...
Suppose further, in an example that is probably familiar to some members of our immediate community, that a Black, female Harvard student buying a dress in Bonwit Teller is not a credit card forger. Then she probably has the means to spend that kind of money on clothes. What effect do the preceeding Black characters have on proprietors or store clerks or real estate agents who are not Black? These nonstereotypical Blacks are bothersome to whites and others...
...economy's boisterous recovery has put shoppers in the mood to buy the best and the brightest, from $600 home computers to $300 cashmere bathrobes. At Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, customers have already taken home 2,300 pairs of mink earmuffs at $85 each. According to Lien Dang, a Neiman-Marcus sales clerk in Houston, consumers want "something wild, something different, something out of this world...