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...board of managers" (directors) used to meet in cutaway coats and striped trousers. They used no first names, but ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...
Crawford Clothes was not the only clothier to take drastic action. In Chicago, Robert Hall Clothes bought up a manufacturer's entire stock of $50 flannel suits, and bragged in full-page ads that it was "shooting the works for $19.95." Retailers remembered their old maxim: sales of men's clothes are the first to fall; then women's, and then children's. They also remembered that the post-World War I slump began with a drastic retail price cut (John Wanamaker...
Married. Ann Ellen Farley, 22, younger daughter of ex-Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley; and Edward John Hickey, 25, apprentice clothier in his father's Detroit store; in Manhattan...
...fashion business went Good Neighborly last week. Sponsored by the wife of Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, a benefit style show and sale opened in Mexico City. From Dallas came a special plane bearing dresses, shoes, hats, Clothier H. Stanley Marcus and twelve luscious models. All were installed in Mexico City's gaudy Reforma Hotel...
Four Buckets Behind. Outraged advertisers occasionally phone in to protest such maltreatment of their product. They get nowhere. Gentile takes the calls in the studio and lets his listeners hear the argument. One sponsor who knows better is a clothier named Conn, who has used the program for eight years. Conn likes to recall that he was once a coal miner and came up the hard way. Gentile & Binge seldom let him forget it. They usually corrupt his program with: "Come on, Conn, you're four buckets behind." Sponsors may get mad, but most of them find that this...