Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Europe has grown used to having the U.S. copy its fashions. But Manhattan's Henry Rosenfeld, the shopgirl's Jacques Fath, last week turned the tables. He signed a deal with Count Aldo Borletti, Italian clothing manufacturer and owner of a 50-store department-store chain, to sell him 500 models a year to copy. Borletti, who figured he could sell $2,000,000 a year of Rosenfeld styles the first year, agreed to pay Rosenfeld some $50,000 for copying rights, plus royalties up to 10% on all dresses sold...
Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...