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...Nettie Rosenstein is through again, and the U.S. wholesale dress business feels as jewelers would feel if Tiffany's were folding up. "Miss Rosie" has made more fine women's clothing and sold it at higher prices than any other designer in the business. But that was before Pearl Harbor. Things look different now, and Nettie Rosenstein was never a woman to miss a trend...
...falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein...
...dress business has been partly synthetic, partly real. Manhattan's fashion world has plenty of adroit and imaginative designers of its own - some (like Bergdorf Goodman's Ethel Frankau, Saks Fifth Avenue's Sophie Gimbel) custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius is mass production; its best designers have...
SAMUEL M. ROSENSTEIN...
While the real cause of the murder of County Attorney Middleton probably will never be known, most Kentucky officials agree with Reader Rosenstein that slot-machine racketeers were back of it. Six men are in Harlan County jail, under indictment for first degree murder...