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Crawford Clothes was not the only clothier to take drastic action. In Chicago, Robert Hall Clothes bought up a manufacturer's entire stock of $50 flannel suits, and bragged in full-page ads that it was "shooting the works for $19.95." Retailers remembered their old maxim: sales of men's clothes are the first to fall; then women's, and then children's. They also remembered that the post-World War I slump began with a drastic retail price cut (John Wanamaker...
Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...
...percent will get straight A's. That leaves eight percent in the middle--they don't get straight A's and they also don't go to football games and parties. They will be sorry. And all but two percent of them will be sorry in gray flannel trousers...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...
Haile Selassie, 56, bearded Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia, laid in a stylish stock against the unpredictable future. Flown to him from Manhattan on his order were five business suits (a grey flannel, two striped grey worsteds, a navy blue, a grey worsted with small plaid), two topcoats, three dinner suits, three sport jackets (two beige Kashmir, one of herringbone weave), and five pairs of slacks...