Word: labeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the street, above the sign for Kate's Beauty Salon (Face to Face Electrolysis Service) were the offices of a paper calling itself The Suburban News. A lot of people are embarrassed to admit to the label "suburban," but Reading didn't seem to mind. I banged on the door, but no one was there. How was I going to crack this town...
...fantasy is effective: private-label clothes have become a dominant and highly lucrative segment of the retailing industry. While department stores have long produced some house brands, many of them offered little more than staple merchandise like cotton-blend men's shirts in a few colors. Now the styles are proliferating so fast that they are pushing well-known designers off the racks. Major retailers today sell 600 different lines of private-label clothing, up from 250 five years ago, according to Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm. House brands accounted for up to 20% of the $125 billion...
...handmade sweaters emblazoned with horses and wine-colored skirts printed with flying birds. While Lauren's hand-knit sweaters can cost $345, a Charter Club counterpart sells for $124. Designers shrug off such imitation as a cost of doing business. Says Louis Dell'Olio, designer for the Anne Klein label: "There isn't a designer on Seventh Avenue whose clothes haven't been knocked off by every store...
...department stores, developing private-label garments has its risks. If poorly executed, they can fail just as severely as the most misguided high- fashion trend. But by gaining control over design and manufacturing, department-store merchants think they can stay in closer touch with the tastes of their customers. Case in point: when working women turned up their noses last year at the miniskirts offered by designers, many retailers rushed to offer house brands with hemlines more suited to the office environment. As such thread-to-thread competition intensifies, consumers are likely to be the real winners -- even if their...
...family's supermarket and department-store chain in the '70s, he bought the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team in 1985 to keep it in the city. Kohl is expected to be tough on the Pentagon, since he urges a 10% cut in defense spending, but he shuns a liberal label, noting his experience as a businessman. He joins a growing club of Senate millionaires, including Pennsylvania's John Heinz, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg and Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum, all of whom won re-election...