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...graduated Susquehanna University, 1951, degree in sociology; 1951-53, child-welfare work; 1953-55, U.S. Navy officer; 1955, marriage to U.S. Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...
...sweatshirt, but lately Designer Norma Kamali has been perspiring about her unwanted association with a different fashion tradition: the sweatshop. Last week the New York State department of labor said it had slapped Kamali with a record $10,000 fine for illegally employing workers to cut and sew garments for her at home. It was the first time a big-name designer had been singled out for breaking the state's 1935 sweatshop law. Kamali stopped using the homeworkers, mostly Hispanic and Asian, when state labor officials began in December to look into complaints from the International Ladies Garment Workers...
...artists at gallery openings. Much of what is best in American fashion--and almost all of what has had an impact--is not identifiable by designer. It comes from attitude as much as from a closet, and no one, not even Ralph Lauren, has ever figured out how to sew a label onto spirit...
Leading 4-2 after singles, the Cardinal needed only one doubles win to sew up the match. McEnroe and Letts provided the decisive victory, combining to defeat Stanley and Peter Palandjian...
...outside the U.S. by hiring young women, who leave the countryside to find work in their nation's cities and in special export-processing zones. On the assembly lines of export plants in such countries as South Korea, Haiti, Mexico and Taiwan, they learn to put together computer chips, sew flannel pajamas and cover baseballs. Moved irretrievably beyond the old ways by their experience, they tend to migrate to the same kind of factories or to other jobs in the U.S. In a way, assembly plants just south of the Mexican border are staging areas for women's immigration...