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...good. Six years ago he started selling custom-tailored men's suits for $300 to $600. Now some time-pressed customers order clothes over the phone, confident that he knows their fit and taste so well that he can pick out a fabric and get started on the garment before they need to come in for a fitting. But his ambitions go far beyond that. "I would like to get into clothing manufacturing on a limited scale," he says. He believes that he could profitably sell the same woman's skirt that goes...
...gnomes of Zurich or to hushed discussions by corporate treasurers. Now everybody is talking and worrying about them. "I don't ever remember feeling so tense over the prime rate," says Ellen Greenfield, 27, a reporter for Women 's Wear Daily, the trade publication of the garment industry. "I follow it daily...
Playing the part of pacesetter is nothing new to Sagan. While growing up in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst section, the son of a U.S.-born mother and a Russian-immigrant father?a garment cutter who rose to factory manager?he was already thinking of the heavens while other children were preoccupied with stickball and marbles. He recalls: "I remember seeing the stars and asking my friends what they were. They told me that they were lights...
...content. The rest of the book is a cunning, amusing and not always pertinent decoupage of articles centering on Blount's South pole: an amusing essay on the habits of the possum; or the tale of a woman who gets stuck to a dry cleaner's revolving garment rack with Super Glue and spends her days plotting a damage suit with her attorney trotting along beside her as she goes round and round with the cleaning; or Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments of life by "quick...
Students at Harvard and other colleges boycotted the Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns because the firm allegedly used unfair labor practices to discourage its 75 employees from forming a union. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union has picketed the factory for about one year...