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...factors that has contributed to the recession is the effort by dress manufacturers to sell American women on the sack dress. There must be millions of middle-aged women who feel as reluctant to buy this hideous garment...
...bargaining is the way the idea has worked in practice. Of more than 125,000 collective-bargaining agreements in effect last year, roughly one-third, covering 40% of all organized U.S. workers, were negotiated between labor unions and groups of employers. Though only a few businesses, such as the garment industry (TIME, March 17), bargain on what amounts to an industry-wide scale, dozens of others negotiate contracts through associations of from two to 20 or more companies. The trend is particularly strong in service and construction industries, where both union and management groups like the idea so well that...
Indeed, it must be admitted that Radcliffe has not brought the chemise to Cambridge. Not only is it not assuming an exemplary role in introducing this mode, but it seems to be bucking the prevailing national trend. Spokesmen for the garment industries report peak sales of the baggy look across the country. Everywhere but in Cambridge, women, mounted on pointed Italian shoes, are getting into their loose sacks. Only here are flats and contour clothes holding their...
...YORK-LONG ISLAND AREA, with its growing suburbia, has still to feel a serious recession pinch. In the metropolitan area, jobs were climbing again after a January dip until nipped by the garment strike, and upstate unemployment is edging down. In Long Island's booming Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which had been hard-hit by cutbacks in defense spending, new industry is moving in at such a rate that some 75 new plants are under construction to add more electronics, nuclear energy, plastics, clothing, to the area's economy. Peak unemployment...
...Coincidentally, on the eve of the gay Jewish festival of Purim, widely celebrated in the garment trade...