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...taken the country by storm. While Oscar de la Renta showed his new collection at the Hotel Okura last week, Calvin Klein's Japanese-made line was selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million in sales to the Japanese last year...
...Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected to grow...
...same-only they can't get it. We like to give women a chance to come back and get what they like." Britta believes that "clothes should be fun"; and her sporty coats, pants and jackets bear her out. Cinnamon Wearers paid an average $30 a garment for a total of $10 million last year...
Still, getting to the top and staying there is not, so to speak, for pantywaists. U.S. fashion is a $12 billion cottage industry; in the past two years, more than two dozen major U.S. garment manufacturers have folded. The rag trade is still much as Jerome Weidman pictured it in his 1937 novel I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Conspiracy, espionage and piracy are all part of the game. Even before a top designer comes out with a hot new look, his rivals are apt to be running off Chinese copies that will retail for perhaps half the price...
...opened an orphanage a block from our school. Her sisters would ask our priests for the old cotton cassocks "they were going to throw away." We thought they would be bandages or dust cloths, and were surprised to find them meticulously repaired and worn as a basic garment beneath their saris. The collar of the old Jesuit cassock is clearly visible in your cover picture of Mother Teresa...