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...article in the May 30 edition on Hong Kong: please explode the myth that any tailor in Hong Kong can get out a well-made garment for $25 or less in 24 hours. Of course, there are those who will do it, but the majority here prefer more time, charge more, and produce, consequently, better quality goods. Having lived here for over a year I cannot praise the place enough, but as for the bargains, and there are plenty, real quality is never dirt cheap...
...were invented because of Henry II's wife, Catherine de Medici, whose shapely legs were all too visible riding sidesaddle on windy days. Ironically, conservative 16th century moralists resisted the innovation. "Women should . leave their buttocks uncovered under their skirts," they said. "They should not appropriate a masculine garment but leave their behinds nude as is suitable for their...
What kind of market awaits U.S. retailers in the 1960s? A luxury market, bigger and fancier than anyone dreamed possible a few years ago, says Andrew Goodman, 52, boss of Manhattan's elegant Bergdorf Goodman specialty store. Said Goodman, in a speech to the Garment Salesmen's Guild in Manhattan last week: "No longer is good taste the exclusive property of the few or the rich. During the next decade, price will cease to be the major criterion for larger and larger sections of the population. The new criterion will be style and taste...
...their pre-spring shopping spree, more than 4,400 buyers went to Manhattan last week, saw the new 1960 fashions-and were conquered. Eagerly they hustled up and down from one S.R.O. showroom to another in Manhattan's garment district, where as many as 45 showings per day crammed the schedule. The designers played up what the fashion buffs call "wearability" (sensible clothes that fit in pretty well with any style or season) and "packability" (fresh emphasis on lightweight and non-crush, drip-dry convenience fabrics). There was a smart swing to dresses made from printed scarf material, dresses...
...garment manufacturers are not impressed by Hong Kong's voluntary quotas. "We're interested in U.S. control, not what Hong Kong tells us that they are going to ship," said one garment-industry official. The U.S. garment industry feels that other low-wage countries will follow Hong Kong's earlier example in sending quota-free cotton goods to the U.S., knocking the bottom out of many products of the U.S. textile industry. Thus, despite Hong Kong's restrictions, U.S. garment makers will continue to lobby for tighter legislative restrictions on garment imports into...