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...Wise Men 13 better, a Houston department store this Christmas is offering the services of 16 mail-order magi for a total cost of $825,000-which tots up to a lot of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Called The Ultimate Gift of Knowledge, a newly published catalogue from the Sakowitz company includes a choice of lessons from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such pastures to which...
...first mannequin to be modeled after "the boss's wife" was not modeled after the wife of the president of Sakowitz [Jan. 14]. I, the wife of the former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, Adam L. Gimbel, was the model. The mannequin was commissioned by Henry Callahan, vice president and corporate display director of Saks Fifth Avenue. It was made in 1956 for Saks Fifth Avenue, not for Gimbel Bros...
...ethnic look": dummies with Mexican, Eurasian or Oriental features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made the figures rounder and softer, with bellies and bottoms," says William O'Connor of Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams as a display gimmick for Sakowitz windows. Not to be outdummied, Gimbel Bros, requested a model of Heiress Sophie Gimbel...
...Purchasing Co.: "American buyers remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident of the Sakowitz store in Houston, agreed: "I can't and I won't stand for another bat tle of the hemlines." But by week's end, most buyers had convinced themselves that things might turn out all right. Many of the styles...
...Dallas branch will bring Sakowitz into closer competition with Neiman-Marcus, which is based in Dallas but owned by California's Broadway-Hale group. The two Texas retailers have been slugging it out in Houston since 1970, when Neiman-Marcus opened a big store right across from a Sakowitz outlet in suburban Post Oak. The stores sell generally the same kind of goods, the main difference being that some prices are higher at Neiman-Marcus, inspiring customers to dub it "Needless Markup." Most Houstonians remain loyal to the home-town retailers. At Post Oak, the one point where...