Word: sportswear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clientele, retailers discovered that big-ticket items such as furs (TIME, Dec. 29) and electronic digital watches were selling briskly. Consumers, it seemed, were interested in high-quality goods and were less inclined than they once were to hunt for bargains. This year's most popular items included sportswear, fashion accessories and cosmetics, along with newfangled small appliances like peanut-butter makers and electric hot-dog grillers and such voguish gimmicks as mood rings and "pet rocks." Only "intimate apparel" clearly fell shy of merchants' expectations...
...industry's biggest stimulus is coming from fashion-conscious consumers, who are shedding their uncertainty about the future and indulging long-suppressed urges for new clothing, notably sportswear, leisure suits and shirts. A big seller lately has been the "trashy look," seen mainly in women's blouses; made of semitransparent polyester and cotton, the cloth gets its name from its rough, unfinished look. Demand for blue denim for everything from jeans to auto-seat covers is running high, and corduroy is also moving briskly. Home-furnishings sales, which have been impeded by the slowdown in housing construction...
...well enough to be admitted to the law school and finished in the top third of his class in 1941. During his Yale days, he dated and almost married a Powers model named Phyllis Brown, who persuaded him to invest $1,000 in a modeling agency. Ford even modeled sportswear with Phyllis on the ski slopes in New England. But he soon severed relations with both model and agency. Nothing quite so frivolous has since intruded on his well-regulated life...
...example, contributes about 15? on each $10 animal necktie, and Harper's magazine, which markets the $250 Bavarian crystal Kenya plate (with pictures of animals native to Kenya), contributes $25 from each sale. Russ Togs recently began to produce a "Save the Species" line of women's sportswear, which at contributions of 100 to 250 per garment should bring the fund at least half of the $100,000 that it expects to collect from the program this year. That will make up about one-sixth of the fund's 1975 program budget and will...
...Evan-Picone, the sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...