Word: menswear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hannah Lord Montague made the first detached collar in 1825 in Troy, N.Y., after she became tired of washing her husband's shirts just because the collar was dirty. With a scissors, she snipped off the collar and the result was a new look in menswear...
...lover of fabrics such as Harris tweed and British flannel. His slim, sleek adaptations of English blazers and hacking jackets are, he says, "unfashionable in a way, yet fun and exciting in their function." His women's wear brought in $10 million retail last year and Polo, his menswear firm, another $16 million...
Connors' rationale is at best only half the story. The main reason for his war with establishment tennis is Manager Riordan. A former boxing promoter and menswear salesman, Riordan, 55, directed the indoor circuit for the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association until 1973. That year the U.S.L.T.A. cut back its winter indoor tour to make way for the W.C.T. Riordan, who was dismissed, demanded that the U.S.L.T.A. allow him to stay in business at least as an independent promoter managing what was left of the Association's old indoor tour plus other tournaments he could organize. Eventually, they reluctantly agreed...
...other," explains Fashion Director Katherine Murphy of Manhattan's Bloomingdale's. "We've had so many pretty, fancy and outrageous clothes that this change was bound to happen. When I was in Paris late last year, all the darling girls were running around in the menswear look." Neckties seem to be the key to the fashion, but derbies, top hats and caps are selling well too. So are Fred Astaire pants, wide-cuffed and pleated, with matching sweaters...
Several Manhattan stores, including Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Saks and Alexander's, are selling menswear for women; Bloomie's has a special area called "Tie One On." Designer Betsey Johnson, who accepted fashion's Coty Award last year dressed in black tie and dinner jacket, offers the menswear look for spring in a strictly individual version: the "Our Gang" comedy style, which is considerably more funky and less tailored than the uptown interpretation. And last week the women's page of London's Daily Mirror ran a feature instructing women in a new talent...