20 — Sunday, October 10, 1999 — North Shore News

RETAILERS are rec-
ognizing that a sizable
number of customers
wears size 14 or up.

As profiled in the Sept. 26
fashion story “New lines a

plus for larger women,” Holt
Renfrew and Current have

introduced new plus-size
clothing collections.

The article drew a
response from _ Kirsten
Gerrard, assistant manager of
Plum’s Lower Lonsdale bou-
tique. Gerrard faxed the
News fashion desk to inform
us that the Vancouver cloth-

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ing company has also started
making, size 16 and XL.

“Everything from — our
career wear to our weekend
wear has now reached size
16,” she reports.

As well, the clothing com-
pany’s Plum Basic T-shirts
now come in size XS to XL,

Moul€, with stores in Park

Clothing retailers getting ‘bigger’

and innovative — dressing
designed for the plus-size
womin, including outfits for
casual, career and formal
wear, The fall collection was
shown to customers at the
Fourth Avenue store Ocr. 13
during a special evening pre-
sentation.

— Layne Christensen

Royal and. Kitsilano, also
introduces a lineup of unique

Sears
flies
Canadian

SEARS Canada is tak-
ing flight.

The national retailer’s cus-
tomer rewards program, Sears
Ciub, has teamed up with
Canadian Aislines’ frequent-
flyer program Canadian Plus.

Sears Club’s seven million-
plus members can now use
their Sears Club points towards
travel on Canadian Airlines and
any of its redemption partners.

Sears Club members can
call 1-800-265-3675 to con-
vert their Sears Club points to
Canadian Plus. Additi itionally,
members retain the option to
redeem their points for. free
rewards cn more than 50,000
products and services available
through Sears department
stores, furniture and appliance
stores, catalogue centres, horne
services and Sears Travel.

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