Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acquiring separate items that can be mixed and matched, dressed down or up, the American woman can create her own look for all hours and occasions (see box). American women will no longer accept the abrupt style changes that characterized fashion until the great midi debacle...
...world. Says Carrie Donovan, senior fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. "You really saw it last fall in the Paris ready-to-wear collections. They took wonderful stuff from the Army-Navy store, Bermuda shorts, parkas-it was the American way of dressing done with their particular style...
...line was selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million in sales to the Japanese last year...
...from his native Cuba in 1956 and opened his own house in 1962 with a $10,000 loan from Bill Blass. The loan was repaid within a year as Adolfo's well-bred, expensive (up to $775 for Chanel-type hand-knit suits) couture clothes caught on. American style, as he sees it, "is an aura of comfort, elegance and youth. It's a feeling." The feeling is shared by such customers as Betsy Bloomingdale, Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Mrs. Ray Stark, Babe Paley and Mario Thomas, who helped build Adolfo's retail sales...
...intensity, sometimes to a fault. Early this season Knight realized his players were so worried about making mistakes that they were no longer performing well; he offered some praise, and the Hoosiers' playing quickly improved. But discipline-lots of it-is the essence of Knight's coaching style. "I tell them," Knight says, "that wherever you start life, there will be others above you. Get used...