Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rise & Shine. Rationing prevails everywhere, and Hanoi residents are permitted only 51 yds. of cotton cloth per year. Once girls in elegant silk ao dais strolled the shaded boulevards; their modern counterparts scrub the streets clad in floppy brown pajamas and gauze face masks. The only bar in town is in the former Metropole Hotel (now the Reunification), and it caters only to foreigners...
...best advertisements for Thailand's soft, nubby silk cloth is the country's delicately beautiful Queen Sirikit, who has her gowns designed by Balmain. Thai silk is also used lavishly by other high-fashion designers such as Pauline Trigère, Anne Fogarty, Tina Leser and Adele Simpson. Lately the Thais have taken to producing their own dresses and sportswear, and have not only made Bangkok into a much-copied fashion center but also created a flourishing business...
...ring up a yearly volume of $4,000,000-a considerable amount for Thailand. Silk has been a golden enterprise ever since a onetime U.S. intelligence officer, Jim Thompson, revived the dying art of weaving in 1948 and made himself a bundle of bahts by selling bright bolts of cloth to tourists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Thompson is still the largest producer, but he has attracted plenty of competition from entrepreneurs who sell finished dresses as well as the cloth. Gaining fast are two firms that combine Thai craftsmanship with U.S. design and market their goods to stores from...
...Free. Barton had other ways of stretching his income. Like most other 19th century clergymen, he could travel free on the railroads while on church business and got reduced rates at hotels. Many communities developed their own local way of helping out the men, and the women, of the cloth. San Francisco, grateful for the heroic acts of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity during the 1906 earthquake, decided that they could forever ride free on the cable cars-and they do to this day. For that matter, the none-too-numerous clergymen who still take trains travel at half...
Cash in the Pants. One reason for the decline in discounts is that men of the cloth are getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church...