Word: garment
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...Keating Five hearings are probably giving Capitol Hill veterans a sense of deja vu. The familiar faces lurking near the witness table prove the maxim that there's nothing like a good scandal to bring lawyers out of the woodwork. Principal witness Edwin Gray was represented by Leonard Garment, who served as Richard Nixon's chief counsel throughout Watergate and advised Robert McFarlane during the Iran-contra fallout. Charles Ruff and Jim Hamilton, who are defending Senators John Glenn and Dennis DeConcini, respectively, served in the Watergate special prosecutor's office. Two lawyers besides Garment have hit the scandal triple...
Copywriters estimate that they have only four seconds to get a consumer's attention with direct mail. Hence great care is devoted to the design of the envelope, the crucial outer garment that direct-mail watchdog Denison Hatch likens to "hot pants on a hooker." It may be deliberately oversize or emblazoned with URGENT warnings in bold red letters. It can be laser printed to make a boxholder's name appear handwritten, or stamped with an eye-fetching cancellation mark. "My job," explains Ted Kikoler, a Toronto graphic designer who works primarily for U.S. firms, "is to make people read...
This leaves the time-honored bastion of sartorial conservatism -- the merchants of the midrange $400 business garment -- scrambling for a new look and a fresh idea. The trend is against them and so, for the moment, are the numbers. Hartmarx Corp., which owns middle-income retail stores like Wallachs in New York and Baskin in Chicago as well as Hart Schaffner & Marx, purveyors of off-the-peg businessman style for more than 100 years, has been enduring a three-year slump even though it retains an 11% share of the U.S. men's suit market. Brooks Brothers posted...
...years ago. Says Alan Bilzerian, who sells his own line of stylishly quirky and comfortable men's wear from his Boston store: "The guy who's going to buy a traditional supersonic suit is not looking for something cheap. He's going to buy a very hand-tailored-looking garment. It can be a straight suit or a funny suit -- one that looks traditional but isn't. But it isn't going to be both. Now you have two different customers...
...Windsor: "British is hot right now. You're going to see more 11-in. side vents, ticket pockets . . ." Could it be the beginning of another peacock revolution, the biggest ! change in men's fashion since the '70s? Anything's possible -- except the return of the Nehru jacket, the one garment that will likely remain at the back of the closet, even in hard times...