Word: apparel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Installment buying is one of the major causes of the phenomenon, along with the changing habits of U.S. consumers. They no longer hold on to suits, coats and dresses as if they were heirlooms; determined promotion campaigns keep apparel one of the hottest selling items. Furniture, refrigerators, rugs-all once bought to last for years or life-are now replaced with register-tingling regularity...
IMPORT BANS against foreign-made men's and boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats...
...York apparel makers it was the best fall fashion preview in years. Not only did a record number of out-of-town buyers show up, but their orders were 10% to 20% ahead of last year. What won over the buyers, said Felix Lilienthal Jr. of Felix Lilienthal & Co., Inc., big independent resident buying house (150 accounts, $800 million a year in purchases), was the eminent "wearability, salability and promotability" of this year's fashions. Whatever her age or shape, the customer this year will find clothes that fit and become her. Said Lilienthal: "The new fashions will...
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