Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president at Bloomingdale's, Manhattan's ultra-chic department store: "Often in tough economic times, designers lose their sense of whimsy and feel that women prefer to invest in serious clothing. But this season the clothes are perky and upbeat." Perry Ellis is showing a line of cotton and linen boat-neck tops that can easily slip down on one side to uncover a shoulder, as Jennifer Beals' sweatshirt did in the movie Flashdance...
...mysteriously, a newborn will smile beatifically when a piece of cotton impregnated with banana essence is waved under its nose, and it will protest at the smell of rotten eggs. Other infant prejudices: vanilla (good), shrimp...
August 15 Elizabeth Cotton and Mike Soccer...
...denim," he says. In those early years, the shapes had their traditional roots as well. Miyake made a housecoat, called a tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...announced last winter, but not necessarily as a result of the program. Corn jumped from $2.36 in January to $3.15 this month, primarily because farmers held so much of their 1982 crop off the market that buyers had to bid up the price to get the available supplies. Cotton prices have risen nearly 10? per lb. this year, mostly because of bad weather. Eventually, however, reduced supply should strengthen prices and put more money in fanners' pockets. "The confidence level is better," says Tractor Dealer Bob Kennon of Tifton, Ga. "People are more optimistic about the fall harvest than...