JUNE ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Page Three
Big Move Puls
Ladies' Wear
On Same Floor
Saturday, June 4, was moving
day at Hudson No. 1 and No. 2
plants. Machine operators in two
departments found themselves
working in different buildings
when they reported back to work
the following Monday.
The overall department has
been moved from the third floor
at Hudson No. 1 to the second
floor of Hudson No. 2. This de
partment, which is now being
supervised by Carrie Payne, form
erly occupied half of the large
sewing room on Hudson No.l
third floor while the boxer depart
ment occupied the other half.
The slimeree department, form
erly on the second floor of Hudson
No. 2, has now taken up quarters
in the overall department’s old
quarters. Polly Melton remains as
supervisor in this department
which needed the larger quarters
to handle the ever increasing num
ber of women’s garments being
manufactured by Anvil Brand.
Mary Earomirski is supervisor
Oi-'' the boxer department which
remained in a portion of the third
flooi sewing room at Hudson No. 1.
These operators during the past
months have been working chiefly
on women’s shorts and will soon
be making the company’s new
serged-seam boxer, as the season
for shorts is coming to a close.
Since both the departments on
the third floor in Hudson No. 1
will work on women’s garments,
Miss Polly’s side is going to be
named Ladies I and Mary’s de
partment will be called Ladies II.
BABY DOLL—That should be
the name for pretty two year old
Shelia Rutherford, daughter of
Helen Rutherford at Independence.
JOYCE CHAPMAN
Brand is being enlarged with the
addition of two assistant training
directors, Kathryn Johnson and
Joyce Chapman.
Joyce and Kathryn will work
directly under Training Director
Ossie Wright and they have start
ed a concentrated program of
study in preparation of their new
duties. They will work in all de
partments.
Joyce came to Anvil Brand in
1947, starting in the sewing rooms.
She also worked on the switch
board and then became a payroll
clerk. In April of 1954 she became
an engineering secretary after a
period of special training. She is
married to Dallas E. Chapman and
lives at 603 East Lexington Ave.
Kathryn started with Anvil
Brand in 1950, doing bar tacking in
the pants department. She later
became a utility operator in the
pants department and was made
a training supervisor in February
of 1951. Her husband is W. C.
Johnson, owner and operator of
the Modern Service Company. They
live at 918 Dayton Street and have
a seven-year-old daughter, Lynn
Kathryn.
Besides studying several “text
books” at the present time the
girls are going through other
phases of training. Before assum
ing their new responsibilities they
will have done extensive work in
the pattern department, cutting
room, personnel office, shipping
department, sales office, receiving
department, ticket office, engineer
ing department, and the payroll
department.
FALL LINE—
(Continued from Page One)
and girls’ casual wear and our
staple and seasonal utility wear,”
Webster explained.
Helen Hughes, who is responsi
ble for the creation and improved
styling of many of the new gar
ments, says she feels that Anvil
Brand has the best line it has ever
produced. “There is more color and
more style than in the past and
a wonderful variety of materials,
including cotton, dacron, suedes,
and broadcloths,” she said. “There
has been a large increase in the lot
numbers of ladies’ shirts—in a se
lection that would please most any
young lady. This year we have
added several in the new dark cot
tons that are proving so popular
for Fall and Winter wear. And, we
haven’t forgotten the little girls—
with lot numbers from Dan River’s
chambray materials in more sub
dued colors. There are plaids
which look nice with denims and
play clothes. The push-up sleeves
are very stylish now as are the
new convertable colors which can
be fastened up with your favorite
costume jewelry or can be worn
open.”
The three-quarter sleeve blouse
comes in gingham, wrinkle-shed
broadcloth, the new Stifel “Perma-
Drape” cord design, and Dan River
combed cotton Wrinkl-shed. There
are beautiful dark stripes in char
coal, blue, gold and mauve; bright
pastels such as aqua, island blue,
dusty rose, and red.
You have been asking for a good
white broadcloth blouse and now
we have it, in both the short and
three-quarter sleeve styles. The
short sleeved blouse, with cuffs,
‘f also comes in pastel blue, orange,
charcoal, and orchid—in gingham,
in assorted plaids—and in “block
check” broadcloth.
Added to the Matadors this year
is a new corduroy washable with
button trim — coming in jet black,
flame, charcoal, and a new blue.
There is a white rayon tape trim
on the legs and pockets and white
buttons on the legs. The pearl snap
fastner on the pockets add a lot to
the looks of the garment. The
other matadors, both cuff and but
ton trims, are black again, also—
in jet black, flame, charcoal, and
blue — in corduroy and in twill in
gold, paget brown, copen blue, jet
black, flame red, Indian copper,
khaki, and faded blue.
A demand for Bermuda shorts
for late Fall and Winter Southern
vacations has resulted in these lot
numbers remaining in the fall line.
Also, the slimeree remains in the
line — some of them in new ma
terials — and in black, red, green,
and khaki. Also, the napped plaid
back garments and the Frostee
plaid backs are back in this year’s
Fall line.
But the really exciting news in
the Fall line this year is, as Sales
Director Wester pointed out last
month in Sewing Up Sales, the
new “Turn About” Twill plaid back
garments in blue, brown, and char
coal for kiddies, misses, girls, and
boys. The twill side of the fabric
looks like a good grade of gaber
dine. It is heavy weight with a
high, beautiful, sheen. It is fully
piece-dyed all the way through,
(Continued on Page Eight)
MARRIES — Shirley McGrady,
of the Independence division, was
Shirley Paisley before her recent
marriage.
KATHRYNE JOHNSON
Assistant Training Directors
Appointed; Program Enlarged
The training program at Anvil