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Article: Dress shirts. (chronology of the dress shirt; 1905 through the 1980s; includes Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.'s Larry Phillips' views on the industry) (Special Centennial Issue) (Industry Overview)
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- May 22, 1992
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1905: Arrow Gets Its Man
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