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New styles ‘visual pollution’

By GARY REGENSTREIF
‘Canadian

Press

MONTREAL — The elder statesman of Canada's
high-fashion industry flicks a speck of dust off his Italian-cut,
double-breasted navy blazer as he bemoans the “visual
pollution” that passes for style in North America.

It's more than just bad taste, says Montreal designer

Leo Chevalier, it’s a di

ing Pl

“People are wearing anything but the kitchen sink. It's
just a disaster from top to bottom.”

Mix-and-match has reached ridiculous proportions,
leaving consumers swathed in a collage of clashing colors

and styles, says Chevalier.

“A lot of people out there are wearing 26 trends at the
me time,” said the 51-year-old designer, clad in classic
Chevalier style — khaki slacks, striped shirt, dark tie and

burgundy loafers.
In an inter

w in the downtown headquarters of Leo

Chevalier International Ltd., he said people have become the

victims of aggressive marketing, indifferent salesp

selfishness.
‘LOOK

enough respect for other people to conform to certain things
in order to please someone else.

“What you're saying is, “You're really not important so I
don't have to wear anything (special).’ It’s really quite a
breakdown. Twenty-five years ago, the majority dressed a
helluva lot better than they do now.”

The Chevalier name, which meant about $30 million in
retail sales last year, spells a classic way to look sharp with a
style that's simple but elegant. It is proudly displayed in his
office which is decorated with Chevalier ads in Vogue
magazine.

He may no longer be the flashiest name in Canadian
fashion — like Toronto's Alfred Sung — but he's one of this
country’s most enduring with 26 years in the business.

LIST OF DON'TS

To Chevalier, a fashion “faux pas” includes jacketless
business lunches and wearing sweatpants to the opera,
shorts downtown, woollen suits in the summer, black shoes
with brown suits, and anything but a gown to the ball.

ple and

AT ME

“It's all part of the ‘Me’ society. ‘Look at me.’ They'll do
anything to look different — even if it’s hideous.

“People only care about

Why not

themselves. They don't have

a phone

for the shower?

TORONTO (CP) — The
conference call may never
again be the same.

Along has come a floating,
water-proof, cordless phone
— now you can talk while
soaping in the shower or
floating in the pool.

Also ready to make life
easier is a television set that
displays two channels at
once.

And there is a much-touted
device called a butler in a
box. It automatically acti-
vates up to 32 gadgets, dials
up to 60 different telephone
numbers and can control up
to 256 devices by voice
command.

Tell it: “Lights on.” It calls
you by name and replies:
“Yes, good evening.” Its in-
ventor notes it won't demand
days off, get surly or spill
coffee in your lap.

The three products at-
tracted a lot of attention
among the gadgets at this
year’s Consumers Electron-
ie3 show, a shoWédse of im-

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thinking. ~

The South Korean-made
Webcor phone can be drop.
ped into a bathtub and will
bob on the surface like a
decoy duck.

The $2,500 two-channel
television, built by NEC
Home Electronics, is part of a
new generation of TVs with
digital processing, more lines
to define the picture, and
stereo sound.

Several developments on
the video front were on dis-
play. Digital video cassette
recorders are coming to
market, offering sharper pic
tures and fancier slow-motion
features.

And eight-millimetre video
is starting to make an impact
in Canada. The cassettes are
smaller than cigarette pack
ages, the cameras edit more
easily, and the players are
much more portable.

Within five years, says
Kodak's Mary Pan, eight.
tnillimetre Will represetit half
of the video market.

Her a time when the sales staff of a clothing
store knew all about fabric and style, and considered a
consumer's features when recommending a garment.

“The whole thing today is sell, it doesn't matter what it
is as long as it sells,” he said.

And at a time when image is a key to setting the right

impression in a business or personal relationship, selecting
the proper wardrobe is essential.

“Clothing is the first form of communication you have
with anybody. People express what they're all about by
their clothes. Before you've even spoken to them, you've
appraised them by what they look like.”

FLOOD MARKET

Manufacturers are to blame as well, flooding the market
with designs that have little rhyme or reason.

“It's just plain ridiculous. I remember what we went
through trying to put shoulders on clothes. Now the pads
can't be big enough. There are no holds barred. There are no
rules any more.”

The Montreal-born Chevalier showed promise as a
fashion aficionado at age four when he returned home from
parties describing in detail what guests had worn. He later
studied art and design and entered the fashion world in 1955.

Now cheaper than most designer labels, the Chevalier
women's line has been tailored down over the years from
luxury ready-to-wear to medium priced clothes, including
blouses for under $100 and jackets for $150. Chevalier mens’
shirts can be had for $35 and sweaters for under $125. His
labels are sold across Canada, the United States, Europe and
Japan.

NEW CENTRE
PROVIDES 24
-HOUR DAY-CARE

MONTREAL (CP) — At first glance, Garderie
Marie-Anne sounds and looks like most other day-care
centres as children whiz around rooms surrounded by
toys and colorful drawings.

But in the case of this north-end Montreal centre, the
term day-care may be somewhat misleading — night-care
or weekend-care centre may be more appropriate.

Garderie Marie-Anne began looking after children 24
hours a day, seven days a week, in mid-August.

“Hey, this is the "80s, not the '60s,” replied director
Nicole Clark when asked what prompted her to offer the
service. “The world has changed and we're merely filling
parents’ needs. Besides, it’s a great challenge.”

The night service regularly attracts about eight or 10
children on week nights and about 15 on weekends when
parents opt for an evening on the town.

Gilles Emond, a spokesman for the Quebec govern
ment agency that grants licences to day-care centres, said
he knows of no other centre in the province that offers
night service, although it has been tried in the past

DROP OFF KIDS

One suburban day-care centre stopped looking after
children at night when some parents began to make a
habit of dropping youngsters off Monday morning and
picking them up on Friday night.

With this-in mind, Garderie Marie-Anne does not
allow parents to keep children at the day-care centre for
more than 12 consecutive hours.

Clark also asks parents to give her advance notice if
they want their kids to spend the night in the two-storey
building owned by the Montreal Catholic School

pies aren't much better at
telling their children about
the facts of life than their
parents were, says an official
with Edmonton's

Yuppies
a lot like
parents

EDMONTON (CP) — Yup-
good

Planned ond good

Commission. “I don't want 50 kids just turning up on a
Friday night when I'd have to start scrambling for staff,”
she said

On their first night, children are so excited to be
there they don't worry about their parents dropping
them off. The calm sometimes turns to panic when
they're brought back on subsequent nights and the
novelty wears off, said Clark, who has a degree in early
childhood education from McGill University

“We try to make the children relax by reading them
stories and playing soft music.”

Brigitte Boivin began sending her two-year-old son
Maxime to Garderie Marie-Anne when it first opened.
She often has to stay at work late and says the day-care
centre is a godsend.

OFFERS GOOD PRICE

“I'd really be in trouble if it didn't exist,” said Boivin.
“It’s hard for me to get babysitters on a regular basis and
the price is reasonable.”

Most of the people who use the day-care centre at
night are single mothers enrolled in courses at a school
next door. They pay $2 an hour, up to a maximum of $12 a
night

The children sleep in pairs in multicolored canvas
tents equipped with mattresses and sleeping bags.

Marie-Anne has five full-time staffers to look after
about 40 kids who spend the day there, but eight are
needed if the maximum of 60 kids is reached. The children
range in age from 18 months to five years and are split up
into three groups.

Parents who send their children in the daytime on a
full-time basis pay $72.50 a week or $17.50 a day. Govern
ment subsidies are available, depending on income, but
the day-care centre, which opened in January, receives
no government aid.

Clark would like to expand the day-care centre to
accommodate 120 children, but realizes it will take a lot of
hard work. She signed a three-year lease with the school
commission with an option to renew or buy in 1989.

“T've got big plans for this place, Once I decide I want
to do something, I'm quite tenacious.”

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‘PRODUCTION RECORDS . . . Workers at Westar Tim- the mill setting a number of new records.
ber's Southern Wood Products sawmill grading lum-
ber. An increase in production last month resulted in

Sawmill sets r

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

Records were set and
broken all month long at
Westar Timber Southern
Wood Products and general
superintendent Rick For.
gaard says they have em
ployee enthusiasm to thank

All-time production ree
ords were broken in three of
the company's major depart
ments including the sawmill,
processing, and sales and
shipments

“We had a good planer line

.up,” said Frank Aubert, pro-
“cessing superintendent. “But
mainly the records were due
to the employees and the
maintenance team

“The processing mainte
nance guys kept that planer
running and any time you're
running three shifts around
the clock, mechanical break
downs are down time in pro
duction.”

He went on to explain that
on a two-shift basis, repairs
can be completed on the off
shift

In the sawmill, seemingly

invincible records were
to such figures as
board feet in a single day,

FRANK AUBERT
new records set

235 board feet in a single
shift and a chip-and-saw
record of 6,060 logs in a
single shift.

The entire production ree
ord for the month was in
creased 31 per cent to 23.7
million FBM (foot board
measure) from the previous
record of 18.1 million set last
April

Steve Sheldon, an em
ployee in the quality control
section, stressed that even
with the of pro.
duction, quality was main.

increase

ecords

tained at 99 per cent effi
ciency

And that takes place on a
production line on which a
blur of boards roll by a team
of workers who must make
quick quality decisions and
mark the boards as they
pass.

“You can spend money
here and spend money there
but if the guys don't want to
make it work, it just won't
work,” said Forgaard

“The employees are the
biggest single part of where
we've come from in the early
80's to where we are now and
to where we're going to go.

“The guys just take it and
they run with it. It's an ex
citing place to work.” Then
he added with a laugh,
“though you might not find
that comment out on the
floor.”

In recognition of the
month's achievements,
Westar will be holding a
dinner and dance for all their
employees and spouses

Because of the large num
ber of guests expected, the
event will be held two nights.
Oct. 17 and 24 at the
Community Complex

Costews Photo by Mike Kolesniho

Corporations
‘lousy givers’

TORONTO (CP) — When
profits are down, charity
begins at home for big busi

when only 57 per cent of
Canada's 500,000 firms
ranging from corner stores to
huge multinationals made a
profit.

Six per cent of those
money-makers made chari
table donations.

That's the finding of Rob-
ert Thompson, a McMaster
University economics pro-
fessor, w! research of
1983 tax returns shows corp-
ori ms aren't sharing with
charities anything near the
percentage of profits they did
until the late 1960s. More
recent returns were not
available.

Of the firms with more
than $25 million in assets,
2,160 turned a profit in 1983,
Thompson says, but 976 of
them — 45 per cent of that
year’s top earners with an
average $7.1 million in profits
— filed tax returns with a
zero in the space for dona
tions to a registered charity.

“I suspect that might sur-
prise a few people,” says
Allen Arlett, head of the

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try that are lousy givers.”

But Ariett also said many
corporations have remained
generous in tough times.

“Corporations are being
inundated with requests,”
said Michael Sanderson,
chairman of the investment
house Merrill Lynch Canada
Ine. But he also notes that
government is cutting its
funding of social services at
the same time as demo
graphic changes such as
increasing single-parent
families and a population
growing older on average.

“I think business has a
moral obligation to help its
community in times like
these.”

As chairman of Toronto's
1986 United Way campaign,
Sanderson is beating the
bushes in an effort to meet a
fund-raising target of $32.4
million.

While Arlett's non-profit
group acts as an information
clearing house and lobbyist
for most of Canada’s founda-
tions and charities, most big
business givers belong to a
separate organization: the
Montreal-based Institute of
Donations and Public Affairs.

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