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Article: BASEBALL CAPS SCORE HOME RUN.(LA.COM)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 2, 2007
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Byline: LYNDSEY SAUL
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Since launching his fashion line more than a decade ago, the name James Perse has become synonymous with luxuriously laid-back beachy-cool clothes.
For Perse, it was in the blood; his father, Tommy Perse, is the founder of the fashionable and almost legendary boutique Maxfield, incidentally the place where James sold the first thing he ever manufactured -- a line of perfectly shaped baseball caps in the early '90s. Shortly after the success of his caps, he began making women's T-shirts, which has since snowballed into a multimillion-dollar empire that now consists of nine lines, including men's, kids' and home.
And it seems that ...