Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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pinochle season (garment-district slang)-the slack season
...clothes. The U.S. Labor Department reports that by last year eight out of ten new workers joining the labor force were women. Result: women have more money of their own to spend, and fashionmakers' fall lines reflect this. To provide for the growing mass market, the garment trade hopes to concentrate on fewer styles, and counts on mass production to hold prices down. There will be more of the basic models-nubby coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment...
...shift overseas has raised a storm of protest at home. Some businessmen use it as an argument for higher tariffs; Chambers of Commerce often consider it downright "disloyal"; unions complain that it "exports" U.S. jobs, cuts employment. David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers, says: "Expansion is legitimate, but expansion at the expense of American workers is illegitimate...
...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...