Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger customers are going in for heavy costuming, theatrical makeup and thrift-shop freak, their elders seem to be in the mood to dress rich. "The sense of community and liberalism that blue jeans symbolized is no longer in fashion," observes Novelist Alison Lurie, author of a deft study of fashion, The Language of Clothes. "In the blue jeans and T shirt costume, you couldn't tell a millionaire from an auto mechanic. Jeans identified you with an entire generation, not a particular group, race, nationality or sex. But the rich don't want to blend in with...
...precious-metal coins have been slow movers. Officials at the Mint blame that mainly on weak marketing, and will try to boost sales next month by offering the coins through banks and thrift institutions...
...need to offer rates of 8% or more on a large portion of their savings accounts. That is one reason why 45 banks-a post-Depression record-have failed this year. Hit hardest in the turmoil are savings banks and savings and loan associations. The number of these thrift institutions has dwindled from about 4,500 to 3,600 since 1980. The strongest survivors, like Buffalo-based Goldome, are rapidly expanding by absorbing their weaker competitors...
...shapelessness, formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen by Kawakubo for both its lilt and its casual defiance of traditional gender stereotypes) resemble items from a thrift shop at the far corner of Macbeth's blasted heath. Nonetheless, they have an ease that confounds traditional expectations of elegance...
...most aggressive thrift institutions is Goldome, known as the Buffalo Savings Bank until last February. In a three-month period ending in March 1982, its assets surged from $3 billion to $9 billion, making it the second biggest savings bank in the U.S. Architect of the expansion is Ross Kenzie, a former Merrill Lynch executive vice president who became president of the Buffalo Savings Bank in 1979. Says Kenzie: "At this bank, there is a bias toward action." Goldome's acquisitions include three failing thrifts that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Government's watchdog for the banking...