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Alpha Industries

Countering the Post-Cyber Monday Blues

November 28, 2011

Did we shop these past few days? Was it pleasant? Was there any way to cut in front of that family of…12…with four shopping carts set up like a train derailment right in front of us? Was there a way to turn off that music? Did we skip the crowds and surf the net until [...]

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Quality Here…No Matter What You Call It

November 20, 2011

Today’s birthdays include Joseph Fidler Walsh, Mary Cathleen Collins and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr…Otherwise known as Joe Walsh, Bo Derek and Vice President Joe Biden. We have musician, actress, politician. We have different names for the same people. It happens. If Allen Stewart Konigsberg hadn’t changed his name, would he have made the same quality [...]

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No Scream, No Problem: Alpha Industries Will Clothe You

August 21, 2011

Tomorrow in history: In 2004, Edvard Munch’s expressionist painting The Scream was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. That it was stolen at all is one thing. Add to the scenario that it was stolen in broad daylight by masked men with guns, and now we have quite a story. They go in, [...]

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Alpha Industries, Rothco and Vasque for Your Orbit

August 12, 2011

This day in history: In 1977, the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first flight. Enterprise was our first Shuttle, and even though it never zoomed into outer space it prepared the way for the entire Shuttle program. Funny thing about that name. NASA was all set to call it Constitution. And then the write-in campaign [...]

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Historic Events for Modern (Alpha and Timberland) Times

May 23, 2011

This day in history includes some excellent coincidence. In 1626, Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from Native Americans for stuff (as in: things), valued at $24 in today’s currency. When the Native Americans wanted his boots, too, he replied (well, reportedly): “Wait 337 years until Dave’s New York opens, and go buy your [...]

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Some Darn Nice Clothes for You

March 14, 2011

Of all the ways we express ourselves, let’s focus on words and attitude for a moment. First, there’s Billy Crystal in character as Fernando Lamas, saying, “You look mahvelous!” That pretty much sums it up. And then there’s a journalist, interviewing Pat Riley back when he was coaching the Miami Heat. The writer wanted to [...]

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Clothing That’s Never Lost in Translation

January 26, 2011

So, the phrase is “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.” It’s in the lyrics to a song from My Fair Lady, but never mind. What’s interesting is that, unlike the song suggests, the rain in Spain falls mostly in its northern mountainous region. (Even though we’re not meteorologists, we can read charts [...]

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Clothing of Excellence to Begin Your 2011

December 28, 2010

As a public service, we’d like to help ease you into the prospects of a new year. (For those who’ve haven’t been keeping score at home, that would be 2011.) If you’ve been tracking time by the expiration date on your milk cartons, now is an excellent time to dispose of the one that says [...]

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Winter Coats that Multitask

December 24, 2010

Oh, you multitaskers. Just after we’ve comfortably mastered walking and chewing gum at the same time, you come along and, well, impress us. We see you: able to text on your mobile phone and, at the same time, talk to your friend, who’s listening to his music, with, heh, earphones on, and chewing gum and [...]

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Timberland, Alpha Industries & Woolrich: Advanced Clothing Magic

December 22, 2010

Arthur C. Clarke wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” For your consideration: the words you are reading right now via the Internet are the result of combinations of the numbers 1 and 0, while in your peripheral vision—there, beyond the frame of your computer screen— everything is made of molecules that have [...]

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