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Article: THE WOMEN OF MEN'S WEAR; MEET 11 WOMEN WHO SAY THAT POSSESSION OF A Y CHROMOSOME IS NOT A REQUISITE FOR SUCCESS IN THE MEN'S BIZ.
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- September 30, 2002
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Women of Retro
The Nast Sisters
"Our grandmother was one of the first women on Seventh Avenue ran a factory that made suits with fur collars, got married, moved into the Ansonia. First thing she did was convert the kitchen to an office," say the Nast sisters. "Those are our roots."
It gets even better. Grandma got married to a dress shirt manufacturer and gave birth to none other than Nat Nast, the man who more or less invented the bowling shirt. After a long reign as "King of the Bowling Shirt," which thoroughly embarrassed the teenaged Barbara and Patty ("When somebody asked what our father did, we did not readily answer `he makes bowling ...