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Closely knit to the fabric boom is the greater availability of patterns by such designers as Yves St. Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Bill Blass. The concept is not new. Vogue put out its first high-fashion patterns back in 1949. But until recently there was a long lag between the appearance of a new style and its patterned reproduction. Now companies frequently turn out paper copies of Paris originals within weeks of a showing, long before ready-to-wear has even finished the basting. The home sewer, able to stitch in time, thus can stay in fashion more readily than...
...company's growth. In rapid succession, Amfac bought up the Fred Harvey hotels and restaurants and the eleven Hawaiian hotels operated by Island Holidays, including the Hanalei Plantation, where South Pacific was filmed. Already a retailer through its Liberty House department stores, Amfac absorbed other stores, including the high-fashion West Coast emporiums of Joseph Magnin and the venerable City of Paris store in San Francisco. With the five newly acquired Hutzler stores, Amfac will have 90 retail outlets by year's end. The company also raises sugar cane and cattle, processes frozen French fries, distributes electrical equipment...
...companies that put up the most bars to female advancement are mostly in gilt-edged and gilded-age industries such as banking, finance, steel, mining and railroads. On the other hand, women have found fairly wide opportunities in advertising and high-fashion retailing. Countless companies require female-but not male-college graduates to take typing tests, then assign the women to clerical jobs. Says Barbara Brush, an equal-employment specialist in San Francisco: "Once a woman sets herself up that way, even though she moves on to more interesting work, her salary will be $100 a week below...
...creations of other American China watchers are not quite so authentic. Designer Donald Brooks takes elements of classic Chinese styles, such as mandarin collars, flowing sleeves, frog closings and lush prints, and incorporates them into his high-fashion line. Characteristic is a simple dress in red with a white swirl print, banded and sashed in black with a mandarin collar and frog details, which sells for $315. Mrs. Richard Nixon has been observed trying on a few Chinese-styled Brooks dresses, leading to the presumption that she will wear them if she goes to Peking with the President. Brooks says...
...rise of Michigan Avenue reflects the decline of State Street. More and more, State Street stores have been switching to budget-basement merchandise and catering to lower-income blacks, while North Michigan has been attracting higher-income whites by concentrating on high-fashion goods. But, despite the general adversity in U.S. central cities, North Michigan has prospered for another reason: its fine mix of commercial, residential and recreational properties bring in business. The handsome, tree-lined avenue is the center of an area that accommodates 400,000 white-collar workers in the daytime; at night the area's hotels...