Word: sportswear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese labor. In exchange for modern U.S. equipment for Chinese factories, Peking has concluded agreements with two American firms, which will employ Chinese workers who are paid about $25 a month, to make women's sportswear and men's corduroy suits...
...some of the Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez of the Atlanta-based Salvatori Corp. $3 apiece for men's ties that normally sell for $4.25. The hagglers finally...
...milk ads, in Mademoiselle magazine and Western supermarkets, feature a luscious young woman in sportswear, with copy touting both "the milk-white look" in fashion and the virtues of drinking cow juice. Why would that seem unwholesome? Well, to begin with, complains a collection of California and national consumer, women's and black groups, the ads present women as sex objects. Worse, as racist sex objects. In the view of the protesters, the ads imply that only white women are desirable. Says Consumers Union Lawyer Luana Martilla: "The implicit message is that milk-white skin equates with health, beauty...
Daniela Morera has a "chat" with Calvin Klein, during which this gentleman whose "elegant sportswear" company makes $25 million a year declares, "I have no pity for people who screw up their lives, no patience. There are so many people lost and it's their fault..." Nice guy, that Mr. K. Nice to hear how he and his partner used to sell water for five cents a glass in the Bronx as kids. Horatio Alger's heroes had nothing...
...many others were skeptical. They said that they had been stripped bare and demolished, that all they had worked and saved for over the years was gone, that it was financially and emotionally impossible for them to start again. Declared Stanley Schatel, owner of Nice & Pretty, a badly damaged sportswear store in Brooklyn: "Get a loan? Are you crazy? You think anybody in his rightful mind would want to get back to this neighborhood?" Yet quite a few merchants were thinking of doing just that. "I have to pay off the creditors," said Gary Apfel, owner of Lee's Store...