Word: craftsmanship
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...adventurousness and quality. If there is a trademark-besides those winged initials that work their way onto the backs of his jeans, the loops of his leather pants and entirely too many other places-it is the tailoring. This means not only the standard of craftsmanship but, more generally, the look, shape and fall of a garment. English Designer Bruce Oldfield maintains, "Men's wear hasn't looked back since Armani dropped the lapels and made the softer tailored look." Says another English designer, David Emanuel, who with his wife Elizabeth whipped up the Princess of Wales...
...installed a wooden shim to hold his garage together, and he has poured 80 yds. of concrete to reinforce the foundation. "I grew up in this house," he explains. "It has always been my home. Others can leave. I am not overcome with fear. Besides, I like the craftsmanship...
...Yankee craftsmanship is still shipshape at the Iron Works...
...time when foreign competitors have forced U.S. manufacturers to change their management styles and worry about the quality of everything from cameras to automobiles, the Bath Iron Works in Maine is doing business as usual. With abundant quantities of Yankee pride and craftsmanship, BIW's more than 6,700 employees continue to build ships under budget and ahead of schedule. That is normal for the Bath Iron Works, but it is a rarity in the defense industry, which is plagued with cost overruns...
More than Yankee craftsmanship is involved in BIW's success. The yard is the only one in the U.S. that combines modular construction with extensive "pre-outfitting." That means that whole sections of ships are built as near-complete units, fitted with piping and electrical equipment. Then, with a giant crane, the sections are joined to make the vessel. The system, now used by the Swedes and Japanese, is faster and less expensive than the conventional one of building entire hulls first, then stuffing them with their innards...