Word: sportswear
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...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...
Will the "retro fashions" of the salons-most of which cost $2,000 and up -mean anything to ordinary clothes buyers? Certainly not to the faded-denim and corduroy set; and very little to devotees of sportswear, still the most popular look by far among U.S. women. The couturiers almost self-consciously shied away from anything resembling sportif, the lines that in the past have been most successfully "knocked off' by ready-to-wear imitators...
...Peter's Sportswear of Philadelphia prints the words "Alaskan or Canadian wolf" of the labels attached to its parkas. Schott's Brothers of New York uses the words "genuine wolf" on its labels...