Word: jarman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened at Sears, Roebuck stores, and at least half of the dress slacks sold by J.C. Penney are double knits. "We're manufacturing men's suits as fast as we can, but we hardly get them into the store before they're sold," Genesco Chairman Frank Jarman told TIME'S Eileen Shields. Adds Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the nationwide Federated Department Stores chain: "Men are buying knit slacks like there is no tomorrow...
...computer-determined patterns. It acts with speed, accuracy and a flexibility that human cutters cannot match. It can cut a man's sport coat, a woman's skirt and a child's pair of shorts consecutively from the same roll of cloth. Genesco Chairman Franklin Jarman says that it will enable a clothing firm to introduce a new style in midseason, or immediately fill a retailer's unexpected order for additional garments "almost solely by pushing a button"-something no foreign manufacturer can yet do. Besides, the savings in labor costs promise to be considerable because...
FRANKLIN M. JARMAN Chairman, GENESCO Nashville...