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Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...
Denim & Soul, formerly known as The Blues Jean Bar, is an American denim retailer, [1] [2] with locations in San Francisco, Santa Monica, San Jose, Mill Valley, Dallas, Denver, Boston, Chicago, [3] and New Orleans.
Koret was born in 1900 to a Jewish family in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [1] He immigrated to the United States with his family as a baby in 1901 where he grew up poor in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [1] [2] Koret moved to San Francisco at age 17, [1] began working for his father's men's clothing company. In 1937 the two founded ...
A pair of jeans Microscopic image of faded fabric. Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with the addition of copper pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 [1] and patented by Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, 1873.
Brittania Sportswear was launched in 1973 by Walter Schoenfeld in Seattle, WA [4] It once reached sales of $300 million a year and was the country's top-selling blue jean. It plummeted into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1983 because of management problems and changes in fashion tastes. [ 5 ]
In 2016 Blue Gold: American Jeans was the opening night film of the Cebu International Film Festival. Blue Gold: American Jeans premiered in North America on most Video On Demand platforms including iTunes and Amazon, and will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on April 4, 2017. On April 7, 2017 the film had its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles.
Big City Blues may refer to: Big City Blues, a 1932 drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy; Big City Blues, a 1997 film starring Burt Reynolds; Big City Blues (2:00 AM Paradise Cafe#Track listing), a 1984 song by Barry Manilow; Howling Wolf Sings the Blues, re-released in 1970 by United Records as Big City Blues
Anchor Blue Inc. (formerly Miller's Outpost) was an American clothing retailer which had over 100 stores in the western United States. It generally sold its own Anchor Blue brand name of youth-oriented denim, graphic T-shirts and casual clothing. [ 1 ]