The company's back-to-basics strategy has helped win back formerly disillusioned customers who had strayed after the company began introducing trendy lines without much regard for its 34-year-old core business of blue jeans and other simple clothing staples like khakis and cheap shirts.

FORBES: Investment Gurus Dump Banks, Buy Comfy Duds

Poorer countries tend to have relatively more unskilled labour, so they tend to export simple manufactures, such as clothing.

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While I would have preferred to fly to England and go rummaging through the Parliamentary Archives to confirm this personally, I had a deadline to meet, plus I am not especially welcome there anymore because of what I see as a simple misunderstanding as to whether their reading rooms are clothing-optional.

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It is a simple but boring truth that men can usually manage with a more limited repertoire of clothing.

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