Word: danskin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm country, Reading has become something of a mecca for cost-conscious buyers. The city, which proclaims itself "the Factory Outlet Capital of the U.S.A.," has grown from no more than four outlets in 1973 to about 100 bargain shops, including those offering merchandise by Evan-Picone, Adidas and Danskin. Total factory-outlet sales in Reading last year are estimated at $80 million...
Says Actress Valerie Harper, who as TV's Rhoda Morgenstern lost weight and grew muscles while the home audience watched: "Now you can buy $50,000 worth of the no-makeup look." That look is an increasingly profitable part of the clothing industry: Danskin, leading manufacturer of tights and leotards, does about $100 million in sales annually. In the Sunbelt, where warm weather discourages women from buying next season's Paris original, jock chic is rampant. With men and women flaunting tanned, exercised bodies, the fashion is sportswear: headbands, tank tops, jogging shorts and running shoes. In offices...
...very tip of top-top, at a photographer's studio in a loft building above Manhattan's Union Square. He finds the address and introduces himself to the photographer, a small, quiet-mannered Japanese woman named Nana Watanabe. There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens...