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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonfire of The Business Suits | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonfire of The Business Suits | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonfire of The Business Suits | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...safe to go out in a thigh-high mini, the fashion oracles say it's the year of the catsuit. I'm going to wear a neck-to-toe unitard in public? No way. I have only to think ladies' room (worse: airplane lavatory) to dismiss such a pernicious garment from my wardrobe. What sensible woman wants to reveal her every -- and I do mean every -- curve and bulge? And who wants to look at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Kirk said he saw a short, thin, Black man wearing a "big black overcoat and white hat" enter Serendipity, leave the store with "one garment" and drive away in a blue two-door Chevy toward Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

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