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...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric (TIME, April...
...White Suit (Rank; Universal-International) spins a colorful yarn out of whole cloth about a research chemist (Alec Guinness) who invents an artificial fabric that will never stain or wear out. The result is top-grade movie material with the quality of good British woolen, the frothiness of fine French lace...
...pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
Lancashire is a sensitive barometer to the world's economic storms. Textile retailers have not yet unloaded the huge stocks they built up when the Korean war began. And British Commonwealth countries, seeking solvency, have slashed all imports, including Lancashire cloth. To relieve unemployment, the British gov ernment did what little it could. Heavier orders for military uniforms and blankets would be placed in Lancashire mills. Imports of foreign grey (i.e., unfinished) cloth would be banned forthwith. Non-textile firms would be asked to settle in Lancashire so that whole families and cities would not slump together when...
...long run, Lancashire faces permanent decline. Its fine cloth, which once clothed half of Asia, can no longer compete in price with Japanese and Indian cloth spun by cheaper labor. The world's younger nations, e.g., Argentina and Pakistan, have built their own mills, and buy less and less from Britain. Short time in Bolton will never be far away...