Several clothing retailers posted stronger first quarter earnings Thursday as sales and margins improved.
Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 19%, handily beating its own forecasts. Its full-year earnings guidance was raised to $3.05 to $3.15 a share from $2.90 to $3.10 as it forecasts a second-quarter loss …

 Ethos Clothing Co. Ltd., Middlesex, has filed the trademark "ETHOS" (customer’s reference: ETHOS290410) on April 29 for medical, smokers toothpastes, non-medicated toilet, bleaching preparations, soaps, perfumery, body care products, babies’ disposable napkins, toothbrushes, toothpaste holders, electric, non-electric toothbrushes and washing mitts for toilet use.
The trademark application (serial number: 2546060; journal …

Dignity U Wear wants "Learning with Dignity" for Clay County students.
The Jacksonville-based national clothing ministry has launched a back-to-school campaign to make sure Clay students from needy families have appropriate clothing to wear to class when the 2010-11 school year begins in August.
Free.
The nonprofit agency is seeking donations and will …

Imagine being able to capture the spirit of a foreign culture – the natural, distinctive qualities that you’ll remember for a lifetime – and wear it around your neck. That’s exactly what Minneapolis designer Tia Wilkins does with her new line of culture-inspired designer silk scarves named AITTIA. Born out …

New Delhi, July 16 — Yamashita Mizue, Fujimoto Naoka, Arimura Hitomi, Nakai Akira, Suzuoki Tsutomu, Tabata Shinobu and Tani Masayuki of Gunze Limited, Ayabe-shi, Japan have developed clothing capable of being cut freely.
Gunze Limited filed the patent application on Oct. 26, 2007. The patent application number is 4789/CHENP/2007 A.
According to …

Allure magazine is taking mobile to a whole new level with a first-come, first-win sweepstakes featuring tens of thousands of beauty products in Allure’s Free Stuff issue.
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A Schiller Park woman who frequented a Cicero beauty salon and overheard the female owner talking about her finances was charged along with four others of kidnapping the woman last week, officials said Sunday.
The customer and four men, including her husband, were arrested Thursday after the salon owner’s husband alerted …

 
It’s important to get it right when it comes to choosing things for Girlfriends. My Hedge Fund Girlfriend (HFG) no longer works at a hedge fund, but I can’t be doing with renaming girlfriends just because they change jobs. How will I remember which one is which? HFG now works …

A man arrested Thursday night on suspicion of drunk driving was driving 123 mph with a pregnant woman inside his vehicle, police said.
State police at Hazleton said Christopher Ryan Egolf, 25, of Ridge Street, Hanover Township, operating a 2002 Acura RSX, was recorded traveling 123 mph during a high-speed pursuit …

A woman’s boyfriend shot and wounded her estranged husband in the leg during a struggle in Jim Thorpe last night while she tried to retrieve her personal belongings from the marital home, according to police.
The boyfriend, Thomas H. Smith, 52,tiffany bangles, of Lower Three Mile Lane, Lehigh Township, is in …