Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maurice Rentner, 69, "The King" of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Polish-born leader of U.S. fashion, who fought design piracy in and out of the garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...
...subway token to Scalloy Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffiins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...Chairman, in respect to a coat . . . Mr. Goldfine has always been proud of his [vicuña] product. He makes a good product . . . The cost at his mill was in the vicinity of $69. The garment he made up at a local tailor. Now, Mr. Chairman, that was not an unusual activity . . . You are concerned, and I think correctly so, as to how such a friendship could affect the conduct of myself, an official, Assistant to the President, in his relations with men within the Government...
From Manhattan's cluttered Seventh Avenue, hub of the $5 billion women's garment industry, came a pronouncement last week: the sack is dead, and the chemise is so changed it will hardly be recognized. A record swarm of 3,578 out-of-town buyers crowded into the garment district for the annual June showings of fall fashions, heard the judgment of the manufacturers: they simply are not making the sack. As for chemises, since some big manufacturers found they had dropped to 5% of sales, they...
...Swim. Eccentric Bernard Goldfine gets up late, drives around Boston in one of his two chauffeured black Cadillacs and constantly calls on the radiotelephone to the loyal women workers at his garment-district office with the false alarm that he will be there any minute. They know better, do not expect him until 6 p.m. when he usually begins the day's work, winding up with his office callers about midnight. No cheapskate, he hands out $50,000 a year to charities, spends untold thousands on legal advice...