clothing and textiles industry
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Consumers have come to know Under Armour's "compression," "Heat Gear" and "Storm," athletic wear, and now yet another product description is joining the mix – "ClutchFit." - Timonium-based Borrow Mini Couture rents children's designer clothing, a service aimed at parents who want to dress up their babies and young kids for special events without the eye-popping cost to buy Dior or Versace.
- Morton "Jerry" Baum, founder and executive director of The Fund for Educational Excellence and a retired clothing manufacturing executive, died May from complications of Parkinson's disease at his Roland Park home. He was 87.
- Samuel L. "Sandy" Frank, a retired Baltimore clothing manufacturer executive and World War II veteran, died Feb. 28 from cancer.
- Bishme Cromartie, a 21-year-old Baltimore resident, will unveil his talents Friday night for his first New York City fashion show, which will be a gathering of stylists, boutique owners, fashion scribes and buyers from across the country.
- From designers to models, talent with ties to Maryland make names for themselves in New York
- Wasabi Ventures to work with Loyola student-run startups
- Ruth L. Thomas, whose philanthropic interests ranged from medical institutions to helping newly arrived immigrants, died Wednesday from complications of a stroke at Springhouse Assisted-Living in Pikesville. She was 97.
- A new teen-oriented store is opening at Bel Air at 5 Bel Air South Parkway in the Festival Shopping Center. Owned by Harford County residents Patrick and Melissa Davis, the store, Uptown Cheapskate, is billed as a hip and trendy fashion exchange that pays shoppers for their clothes, shoes and other apparel and resells them.
- Moving company executive oversaw the move of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights during World War II
- James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.
- James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.
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