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...solve the basic problems of food, clothing and shelter, Architect Rudofsky heaped scorn. The obsessive concern for time-and labor-saving devices in the kitchen, he said, has turned the U.S. from a "food culture to a dishwasher culture." As for clothes, "we are victims of the brassière erotic." said Rudofsky. "We have lost a religious respect for the dignity of the human body. We squeeze and distort the body, and our clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation ago, great exertions were made...
...Newhall's most telling moves was to overload the Chronicle-which has only 41 cityside reporters-with 40 columnists, writing about everything from jazz (Ralph Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with...
...London's Savile Row, debate raged on whether a man's trousers should be his brassière or his hinge; see FOREIGN NEWS, Fit for Kings...
...when the Duke of Windsor confided that while he still gets his jackets in London, he now gets his trousers at Harris in New York. Agreed British Couturier Digby Morton: "British trousers look nappy. They are too full, too big all over. Pants are to a man what a brassière is to a woman. They give the figure a line." And in Manhattan a Brooks Brothers executive agreed that "Savile Row has now taken second place to Italy" with its drainpipe trouser effect...
Others have prospered along with Lee, and the Hong Kong garment industry to day has estimated assets worth $200 million. Exports to the U.S. (chiefly brassières, nightgowns, pajamas, blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...