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...Swiss named Georges de Mestral wondered what made burrs stick to his clothes, took some home to find out why. De Mestral not only found out the burrs' secret; he duplicated it with a nylon fastener that seems fair to make major changes in the U.S. garment industry...
...mountaintop in Pennsylvania's green Pocono range, 85 miles from Manhattan's garment district, sprawls a 700-acre resort named Unity House, where garment workers can enjoy vacation comforts at proletarian prices. There, last week, gathered two dozen members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Executive Council, finding time between business sessions for golf, gin rummy and fishing in the resort's three-mile-long lake. But for all the resort pleasures, the labor leaders wore solemn faces. They had come to discuss the state of U.S. organized labor as Labor Day 1958 approached-and there...
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...
...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...