TITLE

Sleepwear's restless days

AUTHOR(S)

Monget, Karyn

PUB. DATE

August 1995

SOURCE

WWD: Women's Wear Daily;8/7/1995, Vol. 170 Issue 24, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the status of the sleepwear industry in the United States as of August 7, 1995. Robes and sleepwear as a fragmented field; Efforts to find strategies to keep the industry viable and growing; Decrease in the number of independent vendors; Firms' alertness to opportunities offered by the industry.

ACCESSION #

9508252977

Tags: SLEEPWEAR industry

 

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