Rita Blasser
Rita's parents began in the millinery trade, running a millinery shop in New York both before and after they married. After the 1929 crash, her father went to work in women's clothing, deciding that wearable apparel offered a better living than hats, which he feared might fashionably fade. The family arrived in Dallas in 1939, prompted by her mother's sister and an uncle who had settled there and fallen in love with the city. Her father had never wanted to raise children in New York, and when the uncle fell ill and called for help, the family packed up their belongings and drove south to build a new life.
Rita's father launched what became the Sidran Company on very little money, starting with plain tailored blouses that he carried personally to Dallas department stores such as A. Harris, Sanger Brothers, Titche-Goettinger, and E.M. Kahn. The business grew quickly on a cash basis, adding pleated skirts, gored skirts, play clothes, and shirt styles, and pioneering fast delivery and the use of cotton in fashion. Ben Gold joined for a time as a partner before they parted, with Gold keeping the Nardis name. During the war the firm made army jackets and other government supply items, and opened factories in small Texas towns. At its height the company employed some 800 people across several factories.
Rita married and raised children before returning to the firm as a designer in the late 1940s, a role she held for about twelve years. She later studied fashion design at SMU and taught at North Texas. She recalled her father's unusual practice of guaranteeing workers a year of steady wages, and described the close, family-like community of early Dallas manufacturers who shared supplies and socialized together despite differences in wealth. She spoke of Dallas growing into one of the largest apparel markets in the nation, and reflected with pride on her family's part in that history, urging that this largely unstudied industry be researched and recorded.
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Full Transcript
This is Tuesday, October 21st, 1986. Rita Sidron Blasser is going to speak to us about the Sidron Company in the apparel industry in Dallas. Yes. came in to do this not telling anything about anything um it was kind of a revolutionary aspect and it was the way he operated strictly by necessity one thing i do remember is that he came here on a shoestring because why else would you leave me He looked through a great unchartered territory. He made a plain tailored blouse. They bought enough fabric to make free sample blouse. And Dad took those samples to the department stores, which at that time was A.
Harris, Snanger Brothers, Tych Gettinger, and E.M. Kans. I don't think he comes into the end because he thought he'd be doing really great if he didn't order for a couple of dozen of lounges because he didn't have any more money to get any more fabric to do anything else. and he went out and he brought home in the order of four items and several studies with doctors What do we do with this I remember my mother sitting there and saying we have to figure out how to get this money They borrowed space upstairs. A deno button company was down on Main Street at the time.
The second floor was empty or partially empty. and dad borrowed space for my uncle and he rented three or so issues what was my mother back he had brought a basic pattern from they saw them up at liberty and then Tech Day, and the business was launched. What grew? It grew tremendously quickly. The second order was, and I spoke to Mother tonight before I came to check this all out, because as it said, I didn't trust my memory. I was at the old girl with it tonight, and a lot of what I didn't leave was over conversation. I almost had her convinced to come to not be able to do the flies in the mountains.
They delivered those flies within 10 days and Dad felt comfortable enough to go to the other stores and again came back and came behind the first spot. He brought back an order for 18 dozen from one store and 20 dozen, and I see another 20 dozen from the third store. And at the time there was a lot of discussion about this store, we could get a smooth detail on it. The other store, this was a matter of comparison and merchandise. So what they did was change the color of the glass that they made available to store, so that each store had something different, but they were able to use the same patterns, the same style, and that was the beginning of the cigarette.
mass production. The next thing he came up with was a all-around For a couple of years that all they have Please go Plain Go and play I don't know. I believe it. What they did was they did get them to the king of the president. I'm talking about. Didn't the children make a play suit? again later. So the first department was the blouse, the second was the pleated skirt. Then they did a gourd skirt, a 12 gourd skirt. It grew enormously. The next thing I remember there was the about 24 sewing machines. And I saw another picture they won't take it. And then they started to stop drinking when they added another machine and they didn't have it until they didn't take it.
And so the business kind of grew on a cash basis. You have to pay as you go, And little by little of style of the film, the wild, the biggest film, the 12 years, then they began to wear swine, and then they had a high, and that summer, a short, and then they started putting the two pieces together, in a club short-faced grass in the area of Indianapolis. So they have a long-sleeved shirtless, and a short-sleeved shirtless this summer. The slid shirt is a posterior. The slug is a 12-bore shirt, and a couple of seasons later, they have a classic blabber of the back. which is also done with different materials.
Only one material for each style, each season, and delivery was almost immediate. And when I say immediate, within a month. place the orders of a reasonable version of these materials to them almost in person by hand within a maximum of 4 weeks in the least 10 days in which the kind of thing Which is pretty immediate considering that now they were six months ahead of filing and about six months ahead of ordering Which will, uh, no opportunity for last-minute questions or last-minute filling. But this is not what they did. And that's the basis that that business was built on. It grew so rapidly, shortly, that Ben Gold came down, was down here from the north, and I don't remember the exact way that Dr.
Edwards presented. friends with Irvingold and Ben Gold came into the business as a partner. A couple of years later they parted company and named Nardis and remained with Mr. Gold and their dad informed the business was different. my memory came that was either just before the war broke out or in the 40th century during that time and I'm sure that some of you here have other memories than what I have I was not concerned with the working for the business at night, so I'd really like to hear some additions to what I'm saying. I'm wondering if you haven't mentioned, Joe was one of the big contractors.
Yeah, that started during the war, right after the reformation. He was somebody in Washington. He had the idea, and this I remember him talking about at home, he had the idea that it was in a perfect location in a property for supply for government. the government would need to run out of the armed forces. What about finding out how to make the bid and bid? I think the first one was an army jacket, which again was completely out of line with what we were doing. and he was going to make the Loons Park, so Loons can manage Taylor and use the other end of the world, you know, the street's like the Clemencia space.
And that's when he opened the first out of Sydney, I think it was outside of Sydney, that was in operation for three years and added to it to the factory in the ground, but it's still out in operation. But the bottom of that is what the nature of the labor force was. There was no union. and at this local production, many workers in the community who provided the chops of the latest and maybe two weeks of the world. And I believe that Nardis until the day they closed their doors was the moment of the view of the original One of the things that I remember being discussed was what Dad did when he hired me.
He paid the worker a year untired of and guaranteed to be a worker So from the day he started to the day he quit, back to the situation. I remember after I started working with the society, only a very short period when they did work in the traditional peaceful or something kind of work. And that was with a, again, a government concept that was maybe black and white. Most of the time, and I remember, during the years when I was up there, I didn't design it for about 12 years. It was a semi-assemble. Does everyone know what I'm talking about? It's a matter of a semi-assemble.
A line-up of people. Each one does a separate operation. Somebody tells us a college. That's a flea connection. It comes up behind the arm. and when it comes out of the other end, somebody puts the button, the button holds, and then somebody opens the finisher, so the buttons, and then it goes to the press. It never really worked that way in Hicks City. There were operators, there were people who always did more than one thing. And I remember people working for us. There was a bit of a piece for a new installment of the new family. And took a great deal of pride in what they did.
They, if they did not see the entire department through, they put together a great part of it. Those who don know what I crossing the back they put the the joined the shoulders to the seam back in the front and set the collar and put the face in the ground They had a feeling of seeing something that was almost completely different. The finishers were so buzzing. I don't remember seeing the compressed or specialized to the point that it was repetitive day after day after day. Most of the people that I remember that were there, or anyone at this time, well, you, as well as I can remember, the ones that I really want to know, were able to sit down and put the entire barns together on their arms and so that they could substitute for one another wherever they wanted to factory.
It was very nice to have a suite with the whole tree. As big as they ever got, over three or four factories, I would say that at one time they had 800 people selling back, and they were 100 digits. So, quite large. In the beginning, Dad did some marketing. He just stepped under his lawn on his hand, walked across the street to the garden stores, and just about personally walked dead and knocked on the buyer's door and said, this is what I've got. After a while they did have sales. When they began, when they grew to the point that they had all these chapters on the cards, there were lines that were put together to give a sales and everybody in whole marketing But the Dallas marketing atmosphere grew up or I grew up along for a bit and I remember when it started I remember a couple of these growing markets And when the fashion association was first formed, the markets were split.
They were held originally first in Ballroom's development hotel. Then it dropped so big that they had to split their exhibitors and the Adolphus and the Baker in the ballroom. And then it graduated to a whole floor of the Adolphus and then they moved up. They had three floors of the Adolphus and then after a while they moved into the old Santa Fe building which became the merchandise mark. What time is it? I'm talking about in the late 40s and the 40s. I believe that Simmons Trace was built in the middle 50s. The Trace Center was built after I came in. The Paramount. I went to work as an adult in the design department in the late 40s.
The baker was filled up in the sales room. He came in after the war. He started a marketing room in the hotels. And then there was one in the hotel called the Blubon Hotel. That's right. Because I have to run the Blubon exhibitors. That's right. No, I'm glad because my recollections are from number one growing up in it and when I heard around me. And secondly, when I became a designer and then I went into work in the prom from that aspect. From that aspect, but not from the merchandise. I want to put a lot of children ahead of this small girl out there in the market.
I was protected from that. After I came into the firm as a designer, that was a whole different aspect. I became rather clothed because at that time I was married and my children started coming and I looked until my second one was four or five, and then they were. But it covered a period of about 12 and 13 years. I went back to SMU and at that time started a fashion design, a full of fashion design. And I believe the manufacturers that were there were now half the time attributed to its formulation and the supply of two scholarships were given. SMU was the source of a lot of the design companies that came out for several years.
I think that major and its association with SM School of Art only lasted eight or nine years. and it really was limited to the French woman who was ahead of it. She was left and retired. What happened in the university area, and this I'm familiar with the education process. Most schools have a what function is to become. They're usually in the School of Home Economics and the Outroads of the Soean Home Economics major. TWU stepped in when it then been dropped as a major and large profession and worked in cooperation with the School of Art North Texas which is such a normal school teachers college put in a school of fashion in their school in their art department And North Texas is still functioning.
It's a very interesting and in relationship with the way they build the coursework I really don't think that anything ever was like a kind of experience in the world. If you remember the times the war was over and everything was over, during the war we were all very isolated. We couldn't travel. Airplane space was not available and it was rationed. And trains were almost as difficult to get on to go from one place or the other. And nobody really went anywhere. So I think the growth of the industry in Dallas was very dependent on that fact that we were in the high school of age.
We could get to other places and the garment in the industry benefited by the fact that, I don't know about other people, but I do know that children became one of the largest There were the largest climate of government issues where man-handling army emanated in the nation. There were eventually five factors in different areas of the city. And that contributed to the economy in the state because these were small towns like Bonham, Comanche, Stephen Hill that are isolated by those states And they provided the whole industry Hall of Engels much like what some of the heavy issues that are now And this is where they really work, and they really use this...
Why is she... ...is she hustling? Why does she... Why did she... There was a letter of tools. Are you sure of the jobs in the world? Yes, Fort Worth is concerned with other industries and it also kind of strange that the people come down, At this time, he was a resident of a number of manufacturers that were here. I am not sure the demographics were big, but how many actually was this? But at the time I left the history of the real world, a couple of others made a sound. Very quickly, Dallas became the fourth largest gardener in the world. A heck of a growth, you've got to think of it.
New York was the neck of the home. It was California, both of which were unionists. St. Louis, which was in between, which also swayed trees. Texas, which is not good. And the climate also has a good idea. The way the industry developed and some of the ways of working and producing the body of the environment that was set up, and I don't know whether this was original or people copy him Or it was fortunate that he did it at that time, because I do believe that it was the first operation from this time that produced in that popularly price priced reasonably well easily accessible for people who want to store and they were there.
Then see the when they wanted them to deliver to the stores within the area. There was no major price. You don't forget people did not ship by air. The shipping was by rail, and by truck, or by ship by station. And then on rail, and it was very costly. One of the things I think that led to the growth of the market was the absence of the labor cost and the shipping cost and the labor cost. The city was not the only one that established the city. I think he may have been the first. I can't make a blanket statement and say, yes, he was.
I think so. I think so, because this is, in everything I've read and studied, in later years I've taught both of those things in North Texas. I can find no other questions. You said you had a hundred other firms that were affected. At least a hundred other firms that were affected. The fire is a company that was affected. You said this was a huge shock. How many of these hundreds had you in, and did not have you in? What award systems did they have? I know, along with two other shops, the five more that were union, that remained union, and the two other shops did not survive that.
There were award systems, As I observed, in Union shops in New York, the work was seen. The paid scale is by people, and it is very common. And the wage scale was very common with it. It was back then, it was a number of 2,300, 300, 300, 300. However, it lasted for maybe three months, for the season, for the season only. And then it was over. And there was a large group of people, human workers, who worked seasonally, one aspect and one aspect only, and no other. They would sow silk. and the silk season was in the winter. The silk season was over and fabrics changed.
They were out of work. It could not change. One of the things I remember being stuck was making sure that the work that was operated on the shelf. could learn, would learn, to handle all kinds of variables that have long operating, which is one of the systems. I can strive to use, my mother oversaw these, because they were guaranteed a year after a student job. Five days to wait together. I don't know if that went paternalistic or not. This was 1940, and I don't think anybody thought about that. I know that this was... I remember there was a great deal of outrage and comments, and calling my brother crazy, that he was paying people $11 a week stay when the standard wage average was 57.
Now, I don't know if this is paternalistic. I do know that everybody This time the attitude of while a couple of years, the plant made old obsolete. Those brothers had come with us, and we were in the place of Texas, and the Woolworths family stands there, who were customers in their stores, and find very hard to get them to put, and then powering and starting to accommodate and sell it. and go from town to town and always in the end of the chamber of commerce and go into any place and spread the flames out of the casket. It is the basis of starting out. And the new trade industry will do what you might do.
But in Bethlehem, I'm saying Miller still got it wrong. So I can't believe the woman just got on the way that she gave me the path. So, she has a good time where she has a good education and attitude and good self. and that the manual is so that the human body is not a human being. Yes, sir, I have to be with you. And, again, this is the way it's a practice that it's part of the same thing. And it's a thing that, by the way, is the character of the world's body and the same process. I think it's neat, but it's kind of waste and impact by the power of the people who have to explain the dangers of the people who have to take it but it going to come to the final conclusion of the term of current power corrupts whether it a person or a community or a government is a power to destroy.
I'm going to talk to some old markers that I have. I've come across them. I don't think you've thought about these matters. I haven't researched it, but in speaking with the Pacific Gold Street, he told me that the Chiefs of his name in Dallas was the second leading millinery center in the United States. And I was very surprised, and he told me that he felt there were approximately 26 Jewish tech manufacturing companies here in Dallas. She's been calling me practically daily, remembering more and more. I think my list is now about 15. I think the millinery industry grew up side by side with the fashion industry.
And it really wasn't fashion as fashion still. I think the late 50s it was garment. get the apparel out and then they had local there only after the aerial and that didn't take very long because what they were doing was different than the concept of It's separate. Not an outfit. Not a dress or a suit. But separate. And classic. Things that did not go out of style. That were quality, that were well sewn and put things together. I think that's a pioneer in the use of cotton. The use of wool and barns in a very recent area that has been competition with cotton Cotton as a fashion a fabric used for fashion It comes from this era The transitional concept of dark colors, strictly adapted to the foundation, and it was brought about not from a profit motive.
Basically, that's what everybody was in the country, is profit. People go to business to make a profit. They need to work, they want to make a living for their family, and they go in business and nobody is going to study business. and as bald as I do, but there are enormous risks that are done. But back to the colors, the transition of colors are strictly for the knowledge of the Thank you. I can only speak with different ideas of the problem. Dad had time. If he liked something, if he did not like it, and others and others and others and others and others and the final approval were well, we've got right now and we'll thank the we've always tried anywhere you can visit Uh, we'll start with...
...a few things... She had a very strong answer between the colors. Which color... ...is the color of the leaves. When I came here... ...you're on a path... Thank you. Thank you. You should bring the swatches and the bows. The minimum half yardage is the only way to get done is the healing of the braces. We have a gentleman in the room that is here and he is working in the bathroom. The fabric will be permitted six to eight or nine months before you actually got to the land. No, the mills are where? The mills are in New England, New Jersey. and Paterson, Filth and Organe, Orgazine, Jeff Balls, Paterson New England New England was starting to go And I move south So it back I a couple of cotton I'm a couple of cotton.
I'm a little bit of gorgeous. I wish I had a hat. There was a converter mill that started through the tribes that said, you know, ... ... ... ... ... printed hook screen or printing it. If it isn't a woven factory. I went into that factory when they were trying to argument. I think that was down in the industrial area near the World Trade Center. And I went through the big weaving loons. It was very difficult because they couldn't. They never got off the ground and they went by the place. They couldn't manufacture them out. The days when you could manufacture them, one kind of fabric.
I think it was like, you know, you guys were registered, the resident started, the house started, the house started, We arrived here in 1939. The first group of flowers were in the river. August? How did you decide on Dallas? What was it about in the 1930s? My uncle was here. My uncle was here and my mother's sister was here and he had fallen in love with it and dad had always tried to leave in New York. He had spent a couple of years in Baltimore, Earlworth. He always wanted dad to work because it was a horrible place to live. They didn want to bring children up there Were they in a related business My mother was a milliner originally And dad and mother had a millinery score Hopefully a millinery was long enough.
In New York. So before they were married and after they were married. And then in the 29th crash Oh dad went to work for Jen and David. And that's when he decided that something meant making women's clothing, wearable clothing, was where he'd be able to make a living for men. He was a fact that he was a good friend. He saw that millinery was too professional and could probably fashionably die out and come in. He did not want to remain with the people who were in that relationship. He decided he would be a good friend. He worked with a chance to bathe him through. He said I was only found three, so I'm contracted with yours.
I'm glad you asked me about this. But that's where he learned the second one. Actually, I'm contracted with the way to do it. When my uncle got sick and he called, he needed some help. And that came down for a week to help him out. He came back to New York and I remember that he came back and we were gone. The furniture was packed up and sent out by a new building. In fact, everything else was sort of a string. Three lines fit every shape like that. And then the motor wagon now. And we drove down here. I think that we didn't have all this cash.
It's so extra. And we came down and we came down and we came down. They didn rent anything with children Actually we listening out to work the United States it often you going to do it last night and you were talking about how the industry used to be more like a family So we'd like to talk about that. Yeah, that was very interesting. There were so few in the early years. And they were only whatever they called each other. And to answer your question to what you can do, there was no competition. The ones that came in seemed to pick up a different aspect or different kind of style and different rights range than others.
and they were still different nature, and they didn't succeed. I remember Dallas Sportswear and Marsalee were semi-related in places, and they had different lines. Dallas Sportswear was always a grade above Marsalee. Some of the salesmen carried both lines and sold for both companies. I don't know if that's significant or not. It's all for the band. Yeah. There is a car. I didn't know. The shop's for sale. That's all right. This is a pro road. Um, yeah. I don't remember which that was a partner of my family. Findings and Harry Rubin and his pleading that's what Christy's church. What is Findings? trims, buttons, hook and eye, zippers, notions.
Right. They really had some anti-pizza. You know, the button shop that's on Lovers Lane that she bought from my aunt. She's still using the same things, the same boxes with the buttons that she has and she stills them on and all the things pop. She used to work for them. It's like, it's like the time. I was going to say it is. It's fascinating to go in that time. Are there a lot of kids that come into the business of their parents? No. Not that I know of. One, Marceleon did work with her father. I can't remember. The Lord she did. Oh, but they were men.
They were men. Jackie was sore today. She eventually had her own baby. Those were the only ones I know. And I'm deaf. Who was there? Harry was a big baby. Did they socialize with each other? Oh! They were... Oh. There were kids, all the shops, kids went out, socialized. It was not exclusive, but very unbiblical. It was all so classic. and somebody's there, some way or the other, and there was a lot of money or little money because they had all of them. And somebody got a tab blank, everybody's a check. If somebody, if one of those manufacturers ran out of the first size button, somebody would come up there, I'd ask them to check.
It was not a competition for the students by 50% of the coaches. That is not a way. The fashion association came in, and they did show how much they did show their friends And they were in the community ... ... ... But I think this is a social concept in the beginning. Did they socialize? I don't know. Probably not. And if not, then it's going to be unusual. It was a very small Jewish population. It was a small Jewish population in the beginning. Am I wrong that, but I think the, um, just about all of the, uh, the United States was Jewish. He did a lot of work for the first time.
And Henry Robert came in from the end of the day. I heard it was a post-pubber. I hope they're a zombie now. He had a large open at the same time. They made the original house right here. I understand that it was the majority of work here. It was, yeah. Well, the emergency is good. The emergency. That's right. The parking store is good. It was a few of us. I don't know what to see. How would the involvement of the human charge of the minority in the human community? How would the black care? The same proportion of our particular interests as the involvement of the community.
I think that can't separate because... ...to be a community wide, it's a community wide. They work. It's the same proportion. Probably... more than that Probably a group of people We heard from the from the uh you told that that one of the one of the one of the Jewish persons that you take to do is not just a while I know who it was and I know what it is. I'm talking to Jewish Educational Institutions here, it takes me a few thousand dollars, to leave town and to close the school. I believe that the rest, if what I would give you the money, please don't come back.
No, that's not the way the Rabbi said. Rabbi said he wrote a check in town, no? Yes. He said do not come back. and said if you close the school, you will be paying our image. Is that right, Sarah? That's right. That's what she said from the whole time. I believe that. I know that. I believe the directive was I will give you this money, but do not say where it came from and don't come back. The director of the Hebrew School was trying to raise money to the Jewish owners and one particular person. and was told, I will give you 10,000 pounds, but do not do that.
Now, yes. What was it for then? The request was for a donation for building the human field. Now the story that I have heard repeated is that this man said, I will give you this, but you will close the door and don't come back. What I know is actually so. Do know the person in the heart. I will give you this, but do not come back to me. Don't close the door. And we have to know, in addition, which is rather peculiar that this man married a non person a member of the church and the children of the church Never had a plan for a person.
And that was motivation to take. That is what I... I don't know what motivation it was. I can't repeat this. I do know that's what happened. I had quite spoken to the man I had worked with him. I had heard the same. The interpretation was that he was closed. The school was not closed. The school was not closed. I want to, I mean that's an aside. Nothing really. Are there any books, anything, of fiction or non-fiction on this subject? I'm not the most recent, I'm not... I don't know anything about this period of late 30s, early 40s. Would you not think that? I'm not a fascist.
You're talking about fashion design. Well, as you called it, the garment, it was at first the garment industry, then it was a parallel. Our homework is wide open for us. Mrs. Harris, did you talk about the fashion business? Pardon? Harris? No, Harris wrote about the worship principles. That's retail, that's the retail department. We're talking about it is the manufacturing. And it is such a tremendous industry now, and so unnoticed. It would be such nice to have a research. Imagine that it's the second largest producing market. Make sure we give somebody a good... Please. Stand here, yeah, I'm sorry. I cannot keep up the labor of the false block of this, but we are here.
I want to come down. Today, I am going to dance for the sickest of the goods that are manufactured over the piece. The sign may be here, some taste in the fabric, and there. It's so there, all the way back here, and it's really interesting. is well the reason that it happens The wage down there in Korea is about a dollar and half a day, which is even far less than what was paid by Sidron when he started in 39 There is no way of complete You can fly the stuff over there manufacture it and bring it home and still not come up with weight There was no weight.
There was no weight. The minimum weight went in and it was not the normal math class. It was 95 cents an hour. They were just grateful they had something to do with work. I'm not going to read your presentation. We're all involved. We're more tenuous. But it brought to my attention that we need to make a very sad announcement about some of you may know what the description is. Ed Black's elogion on things to me. The day before you are. I don't know if they say thanks for having me. I think you have another couple of announcements that we wanted to address to the group.
Well that would end the problem. Sarah Goldberg is sick and she's had some heart problems. And Martin Siegel is also in the hospital. So we have two get well cards the place that we would want everybody to find I want to express our thanks and gratitude to you Rita now because she really You know this is a wonderful program And we've got a couple of questions to address so we're not through by a long shot. Rita, so we thank her. You have to introduce her. Oh, she wasn't introduced? No, she wasn't introduced. Oh, yes. I'll give her a picture of how we get started. Okay.
Okay. All right. I think we just wanted to know that the archives are open for the week before that, and look at the exhibits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to open the archives room, so I want to make sure that we have time. We'll have a few minutes anyway. Meneth's just giving the final figures on our ball sales, and they totaled over $4,000. $4,400, $4,426. $4,426. $4,426. $426. Our cost is like $20,000 more than $25,000, so therefore we come out and probably worth $2,000. We're going to do a tremendous job. And I think really, we all... Yeah, Bertha Newman, we all get the gratitude. We need a letter of something of gratitude.
I understand she sold $1,500. We had some really super salespeople the next year We didn want us to get started started early As in March for us to start a lot of the bulk order taking and more of the bulk sales And of course we need to enlist a lot more people to help us to really help the gals become more beautiful and help us survive, you know, have more to work with and bring in more programming. that is so desperately needed to do more homework. Oh, Yvonne, when I'm talking, I'm going to pass these around. Some of you may have missed our coverage in the news.
But you're going to let you focus in the day from the Dallas Morning News. I'm going to ask you to go ahead and pass them around and pass them back to me because we use them again for more archives, you know, enlightenment. Do any of you have any other announcements that I haven't seen? No one's talking about anti-Semitism, right? What are the references of anti-Semitism, and what about holiday? Thank you.