Word: sportswear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mundelein College, where she switched to journalism, spent her spare time modeling for Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. After graduation she became assistant to the public-relations director of Chicago's fashion industry, in 1947 joined Glamour magazine, where she developed the accessories department and served as sportswear editor. In 1954 she moved to General Shoe's newly acquired I. Miller as fashion coordinator of the wholesale branch, next year was hired as general manager and vice president of Miller's retail operations by General Shoe Chairman W. Maxey Jarman, who was convinced that fashion rather...
Ellis, now a sportswear salesman, was in his car looking for a new house in Miami when he heard the news over the radio. "I pulled over to the curb and stopped the car and I couldn't help it-I started to cry," he said. "I would have cried longer, but I was in a no-parking zone...
...male population on the summer beaches watches the sleek-suited, T-shirted damsels parade by, the men will not be completely oblivious of their own apparel. For masculine sportswear the season's cry is, "Go East, young...
...clothes with a feminine look for the small, rounded figure; Vera Maxwell, whose simple clothes have an English flavor; Tina Leser, who designs exotic play clothes, using foreign and art themes; Sydney Wragge, who uses color-coordinated silks, linens and tweeds, attains a classic, custom-made look in his sportswear; and Carolyn Schnurer, who does gay, colorful collections sometimes inspired by foreign travels...
...Last week the Federal Trade Commission brought suit, charging 51 Los Angeles manufacturers, 32 contractors and two labor unions with trying to control 20% of the sportswear market by illegal trade agreements. * Still a favorite McCardell trick. Instead of cutting material straight up and down, or straight across, with the threads, McCardell often cuts it diagonally. The bias cut wastes material, but it gives a dress more flexibility, makes it adapt to the shape of the body...