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42 -- Wednesday, March 23, 1988

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KIDS ARE tough customers, and
nothing has to stand up to that
toughness like their clothes. For
their rough-and-tumble _ lifestyle,
clothes must last.

To make sure parents get their
money’s worth, quality is impor-
tant — and that quality is often
ensured through rigorous manu-
facturers’ garment testing.

“‘All textiles are subject to rig-
orous abrasion, pilling and wash
and dry tests before being made
into clothes,’ explained Albert
Good, technical manager for gar-
ment testing and quality at a chain
of clothing stores.

In testing, fabrics are bumped,
scraped and generally abused by
abrasion machines to see if they

will live up to kids’ standards of -

fun.

Fabric is rubbed against fabric
for a whopping 20,000 cycles to
test for fraying at many key wear
points such as the collars, knees
and elbows.

With knitwear garments, the
clothes are measured, washed and
then remeasured to check for
shrinkage. In pilling machines they
are tested for excessive balling
after being put through a torture

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RUNNING, climbing, biking and
skateboarding are all part of the
active boy’s day. No wonder he
needs clothes that keep pace and
look good, too.

This season’s fashions for kids
tackle the issue with real style -——
colorful, comfortable short and
T-shirts that live up to the lives
of big and little boys,

The spring/summer fashions
score big with oversized T-shirts
for big boys depicting their
favorite activities — surfboarding,
skateboarding and basketball loges
hit the mark on durable wash-
and-weas poly-cotton.

Ts make a terrific team with
washable cotton shorts, including
athletic shorts — which can double
as swim trunks — in cool mints
and blues, color-blocked jams, and
walking shorts, in lion-tamer tan
and ‘tennis, anyone?”’ white.

Kicking into high gear, there is
the mix-and-match Kiko clothes
that feature the Kiko logo and
characters, three tousle-haired
boys, as they gallivant on shirts,

FOR YOUNG, active lives this
collection of boyswear fits the
bill. Big boys wear T-shirts with
beachboy and skateboard logos
in a wash-and-wear poly/ cot-
tor mix. The little guy wears
T-shirt and jams from the Kiko
collection. Clothes are from
Marks and Spencers.

tough customers

test of thousands of cycles.

Special light boxes are used to
simulate home, office. and store
light so that the pretty pink color
does not turn out to. be a sickly
salmon color later.

Just as important. as torture
tests, clothes are also tested for

Antonio Marco

Canvas Sneakers

4 styles
Velcro Fasteners §
Kiddies Sizes 5-12

proper wear.

“Instead of testing for color-
fastness or easy ironing, now !
have to make sure denims fade
naturally and keep their wrinkles,”
noted Good.

“T's a bit ironic, but you always
have to stay on top of change.”’

SALE

45-1699

SHOE FACTORY OUTLET

224 MOUNTAIN HWY (MAIN 8 MTN, HWY)

986-6566

T-shirts and shorts.

Pastels pop up in winning com-
binations of blue, yellow and white
or khaki, white and peach. Look
for them in a crisp cotton shirt,
with an all-over pattern and striped

collar and pocket.

What would a busy boy pack for
an adventure? A comfy T-shirt has
a ‘suitcase’? on the front which
opens up to show you, and other
co-ordinating T-shirts.

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