Word: pinna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism, the film becomes unhappily serious whenever "the land of equal opportunity" is mentioned. The story, a continuous string of clumsy propaganda incidents, relates the seduction of a loyal party woman to the wonders of the West. The seduction is embodied in a handsome, disloyal Russian with a De Pinna sportcoat, a Hollywood apartment, and a stack of bourgeois magazines...
Author of the new process is Bryan $1.95; De Pinna; Himelock's; Frost Bros. Full scale production will not begin before the new year, but a few sample stockings have been finding their way to the market. The average 'Cliffedweller, however, will probably have to wait until Nylon Georgette reaches the market in quantity before testing the producers' claims and the raves of all the latest fashion magazines...
With the purchase of De Pinna, which grossed $5.4 million in its last fiscal year, Garfinckel's has eleven outlets in five states and the District of Columbia, and has not stopped expanding. The next stop is Chicago, where Brooks Brothers plans to display its famed Golden Fleece trademark (see cut) in a new branch next fall...
...colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control of Manhattan's 65-year-old A. De Pinna Co., which is as much a tradition to many New Yorkers as Brooks Brothers. Garfinckel's bought Brooks Brothers four years...