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...Bendel stores will stock only the products that win Stutz's approval at those Wednesday-afternoon fashion forums. Once a curious customer asked why Bendel had suddenly started carrying house plants. Replied a saleswoman without a moment's hesitation: "Because Gerry is interested in plants." At Bendel, that is enough...
...retailers, such as Sears, are urging their credit customers to come back and spend. But many others are offering discounts for purchases made with old-fashioned folding money. At Pure Gold, a jewelry boutique in Atlanta, the response to a 10% cash discount has been "terrific," according to a saleswoman. Last week the House of Representatives gave further encouragement to the trend by voting to lift cash-discount restrictions. At present some states limit to 5% the discounts offered as incentives for payment in cash...
Whatever the variations, this is the look that women across the U.S. are buying in quantity. Loafers-penny or tasseled-L.L. Bean moccasins and Bass Weejuns are so much a part of the ensemble that some shoe manufacturers are three months behind in filling their orders. Says a saleswoman at Pella, a high-fashion shoe store in Atlanta's Lenox Square: "If one more person comes in here and asks for Bass Weejuns, I think I'll scream." Stores that have always catered to the Preppie trade-notably, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and, naturally, Brooks Brothers...
...month. Says she: "I've decided to tape the music in advance and play it over the speaker system." While stores in citadels of wealth like Beverly Hills report booming business, others in similar areas in Texas say that even their wealthier clients are cutting back. One Neiman-Marcus saleswoman has just transferred from the high-fashion department to a moderately priced dress section where, she says, "I see all my old customers...
...Girl. She is 20, with a smiling, seemingly untroubled face, a saleswoman in a Salisbury shop catering to whites. Five years ago, she was one of 86 students jammed aboard a school bus near the Mozambique border. The bus was blown apart by a mine; 80 died. The girl was hospitalized for two months with multiple fractures and a puncture wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched...