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Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
...sales racked up in 1988 by L.L. Bean, still the captain of the sportswear-catalog industry. Lands' End, launched in 1963 by Chairman Gary Comer, then a 36-year-old advertising copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago, sells moderately priced, well-made staples. Among them: oxford-cloth shirts ($19.50); cotton twill skirts ($32.50); and silk foulard ties ($19). One of the company's specialties is the many-pocketed canvas attache bag ($39.50), which for many people has replaced the formal, hard-sided briefcase...
...catalog keeps the conversation going. The text is often full of lengthy and technical explanations of how Lands' End products are made. Example: "At our yarn-spinning facility, every bale of cotton is inspected on both sides to insure top quality. (They end up rejecting 10% of the bales -- fussy, fussy folks...
...catalog offers stylish variations on some familiar themes in American sportswear. Besides selling a garden-variety pocket T shirt ($12), J. Crew offers a prewashed (or "weathered," as the catalog puts it) T shirt for $24 in 15 different colors, including watermelon, tangelo and mango. Other characteristic items: Shaker cotton sweaters ($38) and unlined canvas jackets ($68). This year J. Crew is branching into clothes for the office as well. Fall offerings will include a wool V-neck dress ($128) and a men's herringbone-tweed jacket (about...
...looser-fitting and more cosmopolitan, "classics with a European twist," as Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors of sky and palm. Tweeds' designers take about four trips to Europe each year to observe -- and sometimes borrow -- the latest Continental fashions and fabrics...