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...Bros, specialty shops in San Francisco. A manufacturer caught in the revolving door of fashion often has to settle for fabrics and workmanship that he would otherwise reject. Because of rising labor costs, more garments are being put together piece by piece on assembly lines, and fewer are hand sewn. Says Designer Anne Klein: "When a worker works on only one section of the garment and not from the beginning to the end, he cannot have pride in his creation. He cannot feel fulfillment...
First, let it be established that almost nothing of consequence was to be decided by the game in the first place. Yale was already mired in sixth place in the Ivy standings, and had long ago been eliminated from contention for an ECAC playoff berth. Harvard had already sewn up third seed in the playoffs three days earlier, regardless of the outcome of the Yale game, and had lost its chance for a share of the Ivy title when Cornell shut out Brown, 8-0, Saturday afternoon...
...starring role on Broadway, McMahon went West and was soon typecast as a mobster-a bread-and-butter persona that he relished in many of his 135 films. "I was a jailbird," he said, "behind bars so often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning to the stage as Lieut. Monoghan in Detective Story. Finding his new image as the hard-boiled cop equally remunerative, McMahon later became the grumbling police lieutenant who ran New York...
Most grotesque was Roy Bracher, who wore steel-reinforced wings, a bird mask, flippers with claws painted on them, and feathery strips of cloth sewn onto his Mickey Mouse T shirt. Stephen Crouch, dressed as a witch, launched himself on a broomstick. Both plummeted into the water. David Fenwick, a country club owner, sported the most substantial pair of wings: they were 30 feet across, made of spinnaker nylon and spruce and weighed 60 lbs. Fenwick fell like a stone...
...even the plainest Jane: now the enthusiast can saunter into an expensive boutique like New York City's Billingsley, be interviewed by freelance Costume Designer Linda Sampson, hand her a battered set of denims and return two weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea a logical step further: she has been...