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...think the term granny grabber refers to an unsavory frequenter of shopping malls. But in the garment industry, it evokes one of the most heartwarming and affirming human interactions: diminutive overalls and dresses that prove so downright adorable that grandparents can't resist buying them as gifts. Thanks in part to the granny-grabber factor, children's clothes have been a consistent bright spot in an otherwise rocky retail environment. "The children's market has bucked the trend," says Marshal Cohen, co-president of the market-research firm NPDFashionworld. "It's the only apparel sector that grew...
...good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills for pants somebody else pooped in!" my husband exclaimed when I told him about the diminutive jeans). But I remembered that I was about to buy a garment my son would wear once and quickly outgrow and that, in today's economy, thrifty is in. I went back...
Always eager to capture the zeitgeist, an enterprising group of Harvard students have now memorialized the “your mom” trend in garment form. Omolola “Lola” Kassim ’04, who is also a Crimson editor, Fidelma “Fifi” L. Cobas ’04, Emily R. Lowther ’04, Meghan A. Weathers ’04 and Jason W. Chiang ’04 founded Your Mom Clothing last month, which features t-shirts for guys and girls with the simple quip...
...store in New York's Union Square. It is an unlikely success story. But Sait Akarlilar, the affable 63-year-old patriarch who created the brand in 1991, is nothing if not self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager he worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business...
...because countries such as the U.S. and Japan like the idea of a fledgling democracy nestled between Russia and China. International aid organizations and nongovernmental organizations have delivered relief to areas hit by the dzud. They're also teaching new ways for herders to make a living?including gardening, garment making and carpentry?and are trying to make the herders think about livestock as a business. In August, the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, with funding from the U.S. Government, debuted Herder From the Future, a radio series in which the lead character is transported from 2060 back...