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...while, everyone knew who I was," explains 23-year-old Mana Takai, now designer for Jassie, another trendsetting label. Almost in unison, every label that wanted to stay afloat asked their karisuma tenin to please, please design their clothes too. Even though most of them can't sew or draw and never went to design school, the labels recognize these women have a knack for channeling what is kawaii and what isn't?and that is all the companies want. That, and the yen: Jassie's sales, for instance, have increased 180% since Takai took over as designer two years...
...actually made on the premises, Barbara and apprentice designer Mei Lan Low hand-block and hand-craft hats from start to finish using techniques and equipment scarcely changed since the 19th century. Says Feinman, "Some of the wood blocks we use are probably 100 years old, and the sewing machine we sew hats on, called a setup machine, is a refurbished antique. You can't buy a new one; the machines are not manufactured anymore." Styles range from fedoras to cloches and are made for men and women. Although custom-made, most hats are under $200 and made with quality...
Daye disagrees. "There were 6,000 guys at Folsom prison," he says, "and I was the only one from Iowa." He learned to make a knife out of a sardine can and sew a steel tray into his coat as body armor. "They put my life in far more peril than I was ever in on the street." Daye, who makes $7 an hour as a cook in Raleigh, N.C., still hopes that his lawsuit, now under appeal, will help set things right...
Lastly, to those holdouts inclined to sew up their purse strings once and for all, get over yourselves and quit holding back your tithe. There are free agents to be signed, and it's time to ante...
...English language, and he had lots of winning seasons. If George W. Bush becomes president, we may come to look forward to presidential press conferences in a sporting kind of way, hoping for another of those endearing malaprops or manglings. That thought should "resignate" with you. Let me sew you to your sheets. Whatever...