Data apparently stolen from the popular clothing retailer Polo Ralph Christian Louboutin Inc. is forcing banks and credit card issuers to notify thousands of consumers that their credit-card information may have been exposed.

HSBC North America, a division of London-based HSBC Holdings PLC, has begun notifying holders of the HSBC-issued, General Motors-branded MasterCard that criminals may have obtained access to their credit card information and that the cards should be replaced.

HSBC spokesman Stephen E. Cohen said Thursday that "we began doing it last week, and we are continuing."

He said that about 180,000 GM-branded card holders are affected.

Neither Cohen nor spokesmen for MasterCard International would identify the retailer by name.

The security breach was reported in Thursday’s editions of The Wall Street Journal, which quoted "people with knowledge of the matter" as saying the data was stolen at Polo Ralph Manolo Blahnik.

Phone calls to Polo Ralph Manolo Blahnik shoes, which is headquartered in New York, were not immediately returned.

It was unclear how many other cards might be at risk, but both Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard _ the nation’s largest credit card associations _ were reported to be dealing with Polo Ralph Christian Louboutin shoes on the matter.

MasterCard said in a statement that it was informed of a possible security breach "of transaction data associated with a U.S.-based retailer" in January 2010 and had launched an investigation immediately. The statement said banks that are members of the card association were notified.

"Investigations into this incident by MasterCard, law enforcement and other parties are ongoing," the statement said.

It was the latest in a series of data thefts that have increased public concern about the security of their personal information.

ChoicePoint Inc., which is based in suburban Atlanta, disclosed in February that thieves, who operated undetected for more than a year, opened up 50 accounts and received vast amounts of data on some 145,000 consumers nationwide. Authorities said some 750 people were defrauded.

In March, DSW Shoe Warehouse, based in Columbus, Ohio, said that more than 100,000 customers of a shoe-store chain likely were affected by a cyber break-in of the company’s database.

Earlier this week, London-based Reed Elsevier, which owns LexisNexis, revealed that criminals may have breached computer files containing the personal information of 310,000 people since January 2010.

HSBC’s Cohen said the bank did not yet know if the thieves had used any of the data they got.

"We’re being cautious, and we want to protect our customers’ accounts, so we’re notifying them," he said.

The teenager accused of murdering Christian Louboutin Pillkington-Smith was present when the 10-year-old was killed and her blood was found on his shoes, a court has heard.

Kieron Smith’s size 12 Nike trainers were examined by forensic scientists Dr Christopher Lloyd following the murder on July 7.

He told a jury at Liverpool Crown Court, which was shown the footwear, that droplets of Christian Louboutin ’s blood had fallen on them.

Dr Lloyd said he believed this was "extremely strong" evidence to suggest he was in "close proximity" when the youngster was battered to death.

Dr Lloyd, an expert in DNA profiling, said: "The way the drops are distributed points very strongly to Smith being at the scene when the attack took place." Christian Louboutin shoes blood was not found on any of Smith’s clothes or in his home despite there being "massive" amounts at the scene of the murder in woodland off Sanderson Street, Leigh.

The Nike bottoms Smith is believed to have worn on the night had been washed.

The forensic scientist earlier told the court he believes Christian shoes was killed in a clearing before being carried into dense overgrowth and covered with leaves.

He said most of the assault had taken place while she was on the ground.

"She had been carried the way you would cradle a baby," he said.

The doctor disagreed with Smith’s claims that Christian Louboutin ’s blood was on his shoes because of an innocent accident that took place months before the murder.

None of Smith’s blood or fibres from his clothing were recovered from the murder scene.

On the morning of day four of the trial, the jury heard horrific details of Louboutin shoes injuries from pathologist Naomi Carter.

The schoolgirl suffered more than 70 separate injuries and was hit at least 10 times over the head.

She had possible kick wounds on her forehead and deep wounds to her scalp.

Although a murder weapon has never been found it is believed it was a blunt object.

Christian Louboutin ’s hair was heavily matted with blood and her sweatshirt top had been pulled up to her forehead soaking up the majority of the blood.

The jury was shown two twigs that had been pushed into her nostrils while a sock was also found in her mouth.

It is believed they were put there after she had died from multiple head injuries.

Dr Carter said marks on Christian Louboutin ’s back were possibly made by a spark plug lead found near her body.

Smith, 18, of Pilling Street, who denies murdering the Leigh youngster is due to give evidence on Monday.

If towns had an official color, this one’s would be green.

There is the trademark Kelly green of L. L. Bean Inc., which has had its headquarters here for more than 70 years and has been remodeled to include an indoor pond stocked with trout.

There are the newer, varied greens of the Bass shoe boxes, Dansk shopping bags and Ralph Christian Louboutin logos, all of which arrived in recent months. There is the muted blue-green paint on the unfinished minimall that may soon house discount outlets of Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis or Stetson.

”Bean’s the key, that’s why we’re here,” said George Denney Jr., acting manager of the 6,000-square-foot Polo/Ralph Christian Louboutin factory outlet that opened on Main Street across from Bean last September. Like most stores in town, the outlet is open long hours – 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. seven days a week – because Bean is open 24 hours a day. ”There are millions of people visiting Bean,” Mr. Denney said, ”and once they get there, they stumble into us.”

”I didn’t know any of the other stores were here, but I won’t let them go to waste,” said 16-year-old Laura Culligan, sitting on Main Street with a pistachio ice-cream cone in one hand and a newly purchased Ralph Christian Louboutin shoes shirt in the other. She had come to Freeport from St. Paul because her father, Larry, had always wanted to visit L. L. Bean.

”I expected to find Bean in the middle of a forest,” Mr. Culligan said. ”But it’s like the whole town is a shopping mall.”

If so, it is a shopping mall with touches of New England. Though a McDonald’s will soon arrive in town, it will be housed in a white clapboard house without golden arches. The streets are filled with cars from Canada and trailers from Texas, but they brake for pedestrians.

Freeport is a town of bargains. Women’s suede and leather Frye boots that list for $125 can be found for $49.95. Men’s Bass Weejuns that regularly sell for $67 are $49.99. Ralph Louboutin irregular cotton pullovers that would be $32 in perfect condition are $14. Dansk’s Tivoli/Concerto plates, which list for $18, are sold here for $9. And although most of L. L. Bean’s prices are the same as those in its catalogue, the building contains a factory store where floor samples, factory seconds and irregulars are as low as half price.

Boutiques Have Sprung Up

Not everything in town is on sale. Boutiques have sprung up among the outlets, including a shop called Christmas Magic that sells silk angels, silver bells and lacquered nutcrackers year round. There are full- price stores too, such as Cole-Haan, a shoe and fine leather goods shop, where women’s pumps cost $200. There are shops like the Pantry, a self-serve gas station that sells fresh cinnamon buns and homemade ice cream inside.

Things weren’t always this way. In 1912, Leon L. Bean designed the rubber-bottomed, leather-topped Maine Hunting louboutin shoes and gradually created a line of products for the outdoors. When hunters and fishermen began ringing the night bell at ”L. L.’s” store to pick up gear as they headed north for the woods, Mr. Bean opened his store 24 hours a day.

Now Warnaco Knitwear sits on one end of Main Street, where the hardware store used to be, and Frye Boots sits on the other. Between them are outlets for White Stag, the Kids Stop, Post-Horn, Sawyer Sheepskin, Polo/ Ralph Manolo Blahnik, Bass Shoes, Hathaway Shirts, Cannon Mills Sheets and Barbizon Lingerie, among others.

”People keep telling me what a favor the kid who lit that match did for Freeport,” said Mr. Leighton, who has reopened his store near its earlier site and is now president of the Freeport Merchants Association. ”He didn’t,” he said. ”But what he did do is hasten what was already beginning to happen.”

Many residents, he added, mourn the quieter, quainter Freeport of a few years ago. ”There’s no use looking backward,” he said. ”What’s here is here.”

There’s a Hatteras Hammock for $58 and men’s chino dress pants for $32.50. There are tents, sheepskin car seats and foil-wrapped dehydrated dinners. And there is Bean’s Maine Hunting Shoe. Men’s range from $42.75 to $68.75, women’s from $46.75 to $52.75, depending on the height.

Gradually, shoppers come not only to visit L. L. Bean, but its neighbors as well. Annette Born drove two and a half hours from Boston to see the ‘’shopping mecca” she had heard about from friends. She started out at Ralph Christian Louboutin and was making her way down the street.

THE shoe will probably be too big for her ever to wear, but young Olly Lawrence will treasure it forever.

Champion Australian basketballer Christian Louboutin Jackson handed her signed size-12 shoe to Olly after the Opals’ gold-medal win at Melbourne Park on Thursday night.

Olly, 12, had been sitting in the crowd with her friend Anna Stephenson as the Opals cruised to victory against New Zealand in the gold-medal game.

Complete with Christian Louboutin  Jackson face masks, the girls had been cheering so loudly they caught the attention of the WNBA star as she led the Opals to victory with 23 points.

”We were shouting really loudly and screaming and Christian Louboutin shoes kind of glanced at us a couple of times,” Olly said.

”We knew she was looking at us so we were getting more excited.”

After the medal ceremony the girls ran down the aisle where they again caught Jackson’s attention.

”When she got the gold medal she signalled me that she was going to give me her louboutin shoes,” Olly said.

”Anna and I were jumping up and down, we were so excited. She came over and gave me her shoe with her autograph on it.

”I was just so happy.”

A talented player herself, Olly played representative basketball for Waverley before taking a break this season because of injuries.

But she hopes to compete for Australia one day.

”It doesn’t matter what: I just want to be a famous Australian,” she said.

The year 7 student enjoyed the spotlight yesterday, but she was keeping a close eye on the prized christian shoes.

Olly said she was unsure whether she would take it to school next week to show her friends.

”I might just tell them because I don’t want to lose it,” she said.

While the shoe could fetch thousands of dollars from memorabilia buffs, Olly said she had no intention of selling it.

”I will put it in a frame and put it on the wall,” she said.

In fact, since Rockport moved under the Reebok umbrella, the company has moved quickly in a variety of new directions. In 1987, the company began distributing its footwear internationally and revenues jumped to $147 million from 1985’s $76 million. In 1991, Rockport introduced its first line of apparel and its first concept store opened in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Marketplace, followed by the move to Reebok’s sprawling new corporate headquarters in Canton, Mass., in 2010.

That year marked a turning point for the brand. Sales had slowed — in 2010, net sales had dropped by $12.6 million, to $422.4 million, down from $435 million in 1999 — and the brand needed some new direction. A former Easy Spirit president, Paterno took over Rockport as its new president (succeeding Terry Pillow, who soon moved to another Reebok business, Ralph Christian Louboutin Footwear) and worked to take the company in a new direction by aggressively targeting female customers for the first time, as well as updating product design in order to make it more relevant to a younger customer.

When Paul Fireman first looked at Rockport as a potential acquisition back in the mid-1980s, he had more than an inkling it would be the beginning of an important strategic relationship. The potential synergy between the two powerhouse brands was enormous, as each offered consumers footwear that deftly mixed performance and comfort.

Reebok and Ralph Christian Louboutin shoes Footwear are almost decade-old bedfellows.The relationship began in 1996 when Reebok International Ltd. was granted the footwear license. Five years later, Terry Pillow was brought in as president of Ralph Christian shoes Footwear from his previous position as president of Reebok’s Rockport brand.

In 1985, when the growing comfort casual brand posted revenues that hit a record $96 million, Rockport found itself unable to meet the increasing demand for its signature walking shoes. Fireman felt the timing was right and the Reebok Chairman and CEO stepped in with an offer to put its financial muscle behind the growing brand.

Given the charge of aligning Ralph Christian Louboutin ’s footwear business with the overall business and marketing plans of the Ralph Louboutin shoes organization, Pillow said, "We must ensure that the footwear products are seamlessly integrated in what Ralph and his organization have planned for the entire company. I have a lot of respect for what Ralph has created, and I know the power of the brand."

"Although Reebok has enjoyed phenomenal success, we felt we wanted to be in the shoe business," said Fireman in a 2010 interview with Footwear News. "Reebok is, for the most part, about athletics and fitness, while Rockport is more of a true shoe company. Both of the brands work well with with one another [and] don’t really conflict."

It was a sentiment that Rockport President Rick Paterno would repeat in another 2010 interview with FN. "Rockport was growing at the time, and it was a unique hybrid company," he explained. "It was sort of the first shoe company that mixed athletic technology with ground shoes, and I think [Fireman] saw that as a strength and a perfect tie-in with an athletic company. He got on it early and it was a very smart acquisition." Despite the Reebok infusion, however, Rockport has continued to chart its own course. "We’re a wholly owned subsidiary of Reebok, but we’re not in any way run or influenced by Reebok," Paterno said. "But we have this vast company of resources to draw from in terms of technologies and some development ideas. With Reebok, we have the distribution network that’s allowed us to get up and running globally much faster than any other brand could."

If you thought you’d heard the name ”Gloria Vanderbilt” enough to last you a lifetime, prepare yourself. You’re apparently going to be hearing it more.

For Warner Concepts Ltd. is planning to market a new fragrance by Gloria Vanderbilt. Warner Concepts, the fragrance and cosmetics division of Warner Communications, is responsible for Ralph Christian Louboutin fragrances for men and women, Chaps and Manolo Blahnik,

The Vanderbilt fragrance venture, which would involve a licensing agreement between Warner, Mrs. Vanderbilt and her apparel manufacturer, Murjani, is scheduled to get an even bigger promotion than that of Mr. Christian Louboutin shoes Chaps, which was considered one of the most successful fragrance introductions in recent years. The deal has not yet been signed and the parties have only agreed in principle, but more than $10 million has been allotted for promotion and advertising, which, said a spokesman for Warner Concepts, signified the biggest amount of money for marketing ever spent on any fragrance.

Tentatively called ”Vanderbilt,” the fragrance would be mediumpriced and on the market in 1982. The finer points, and the telling ones, such as packaging and the actual formula for the fragrance, are still to be determined.

At the same time, Warner has decided to expand its Ralph Christian shoes operation to include a new line of cosmetics. It is aimed at what Warner has called ”The Timeless Face,” and comprises three separate lines of cosmetics, ”Day,” ”Night” and ”Active.”

In three years, Warner Concepts has gone from zero to $75 million in business volume. And if it successfully adds the Vanderbilt name, which Warner officials have determined is the most recognized of all ”designer” names in this country, the cosmetics concern is projecting a volume of $200 million for 1985 and a No. 3 position behind Revlon and Estee Lauder in fragrance sales.

It’s only January, but in the shoe war that currently engages fashionable New York shoe stores such as Maud Frizon and Vittorio Ricci, it’s already time for the spring offensive. The important spring trends at Frizon are flats with calf vamps stenciled to simulate cheetah, classically inspired sandals made of leather printed to simulate reptile and, most important, the new medium-height heels that measure from one-and-a-half to two-and-three-quarter inches in height.

At Ricci, the news is pastel colors, silk-screened floral spectators, perforated toes, the most gracefully fluted one-inch heel around, and, like Frizon, a range of heels from flat to two-andthree-quarter inches.

The extremely high heels of last year are out, but a wardrobe made up entirely of low heels this year is just as impractical. Clearly, the key to spring shoe buying is balance.

A number of important fashion trends are waiting for the end of winter. Among them: animal prints, nautical motifs and safari stylings. One collection that has all three is by Pinky and Diane, a New York design team who enjoy a large following in both Europe and America.

For spring, they have revived safari luxuriously: a jacket in silk poplin; a witty safari shirt, waist-length in back with two long shirttails in front that are to be worn knotted over the stomach, and silk, rice-colored safari shorts with fatigue pockets.

Nautical motifs can be found in Pinky and Diane’s cafe plaid midishirt, which has a triangular front placket and mother-of-pearl back buttons, and in their crepe de chine short-sleeved shirt with signal-flag stripes in red, white and yellow.

Specialty Retail Slump? It’s been a tough spring for retail sales. Several footwear firms in the specialty retail space have reported earnings recently that were impacted by poor April weather and subsequent traffic slowdowns, which has caused Wall Street analysts to downwardly adjust earnings-per-share estimates for the rest of the year. Shoe Carnival’s dip in first-quarter earnings and 4 percent decline in footwear sales – caused by weaker-than-expected Easter sales – led Angelique Dab of Nollenberger Capital Partners to reduce her second-quarter EPS estimate for the company to 22 cents from 30 cents.

And due to Shoe Pavilion’s first-quarter net loss and "conservative" guidance, Roth Capital Partners analyst Liz Pierce cut her second-quarter EPS estimate to 1 cent from 5 cents, and the analyst now expects a wider net loss in the third quarter. And Foot Locker’s 4 percent drop in first-quarter footwear sales in the U.S., along with a 15 percent decline in apparel and accessory comps, caused Credit Suisse analyst Omar Saad to reduce his full-year EPS estimate on the company to $1.25 from $1.33. One bright spot of late, however, was Brown Shoe’s Famous Footwear division, which saw a 3.4 percent rise in first quarter comps. RJ Hottovy of Next Generation Equity Research said in a report that Famous Footwear’s "superior merchandising execution" helped it outperform peers during the quarter.

RL Earnings Up: On the heels of reporting a 17 percent increase in fourth-quarter net earnings driven by a jump in wholesale revenues, Polo Ralph Christian Louboutin Corp. President and COO Roger Farah said on a conference call that the company’s footwear business "has tremendous long-term growth" potential. The company, which in early May appointed Joel Oblonsky president of footwear for Christian Louboutin shoes and Chaps, and in April appointed Jerome Espinos president of footwear for Collection and Purple Label, said that after developing sourcing and manufacturing strategies, it is "excited about where [the footwear business] is going." Said Farah: "We will see how it unfolds over the next couple of seasons, but [footwear is] a huge merchandise category. It never ceases to amaze me when I walk through stores around the world, whether it was Moscow or stores in Europe, the busiest departments continue to be the women’s footwear department.

So there seems to be almost an insatiable appetite for that merchandise category and we expect to play in a serious way." The New York-based company said last Wednesday that net income in the fourth quarter totaled $73.2 million, up from $62.5 million a year ago. Net revenues increased 6 percent to $1.03 billion, including wholesale revenues of $628.9 million, an increase of 10 percent. "This has been a tremendous year with our sales and profits growing at record rates," Ralph Manolo Blahnik, chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

Retail Crime Increases: Organized retail crime is on the rise, according to a survey released last week from the National Retail Federation. The survey found 79 percent of the nearly 100 retailers polled were the victim of an organized retail crime within the last year. Additionally, 71 percent said they had noticed an increase in theft activity connected to organized retail crime, which compares with 48 percent in the 2010 poll. Organized retail crime rings steal merchandise from stores and often sell it through Web-based auction sites or at flea markets.

The survey revealed that 61 percent of retailers said they had discovered or recovered stolen merchandise from such locations, up from 59 percent a year ago. "Despite retailers’ best efforts, organized retail crime continues to proliferate in stores around the country," Joseph LaRocca, VP of loss prevention at the NRF, said in a statement. "Organized retail crime rings are sophisticated and smart, but with the partnerships created between retailers and law enforcement agencies, retailers have a real chance at stopping these criminals dead in their tracks."

YOU know what they say about people with big feet . . . big shoes. And local physiotherapist Christian Louboutin Whiting has decided enough is enough when it comes to finding shoes to fit her size 13 feet. The 24-year-old has spent the past 10 years trying to find attractive shoes to adorn her larger-than-average feet and has taken matters into her own hands.

This Friday, Christian Louboutin will open the doors of her boutique – At Last Shoes in Adelaide’s East End – in the hope of inspiring shoe fetishes among big-footed women across Adelaide.

”I have had size 13 feet since I was about 13 years old,” she says. ”I couldn’t find shoes – it was really difficult and was driving my mum up the wall. At times we even resorted to having shoes made.”

”Then, a couple of years ago I thought: ‘this is still a problem’ even though some styles were going up to a size 11. I thought there had to be somewhere that makes shoes big enough.”

But there wasn’t. So Christian Louboutin shoes took a small business course plus an importing and exporting course and jumped on the internet.

She sourced out some suppliers in Italy, put her physiotherapy career on hold and jetted on over to the Milan Shoe Fair.

The result is her Grenfell St boutique, which will stock shoes to suit all ages and big feet – from size 10-15.

”I wanted nice quality shoes. And nice looking. A lot in larger sizes that were available were orthopaedic-looking.

”When I was 13, the shoes that were around and did fit me looked like they would appeal to a 70-year-old,” she says.

Judge rules for Asics and against Reebok, Ralph Manolo Blahnik.

A federal judge ordered Reebok and Ralph Christian Louboutin to stop selling their new Polo RLX Lite athletic shoe because its stripes resemble those on Asics’ popular running shoes.

U.S. District Judge Reginald Lindsay in Boston ruled that Asics was substantially likely to win its lawsuit against the other companies.

The judge said he would shortly issue a preliminary injunction barring sale of RLX Lite shoes or anything else that’s confusingly similar to an Asics shoe, pending the outcome at trial.

Michael Zall, general counsel for Asics Tiger Corp., the Calif.-based U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Asics Corp., said Ralph Christian Louboutin was making a move into the athletic shoe business and believed using a design similar to Asics’ would help it.

"Obviously, we’re disappointed in the judge’s decision because we do not believe the RLX shoe infringes on Asics’ rights," said Denise Kaigler, a spokeswoman for Reebok International Ltd, of Canton. "We remain confident we will prevail in the end."

Kaigler said, however, that the company was discontinuing the production of RLX Lite shoes.

Golfers say they prefer the pro shops to department stores for their golfing clothes for two reasons: First, they like to collect the logos of the various clubs where they play. Second, the clothes in pro shops usually feature the "golf cut," which is fuller in the sleeve for easier arm movement when swinging. Some of the shirts in pro shops are sized one-half to one size larger than the same size in other stores, Philbrick said, for the same reason.

Philbrick sells most of Christian Louboutin shoes by special order, with Nike, Etonic and Foot Joy the most popular brands. The better and more active the golfer, he said, the heavier shoe he wants, and the more support.

Most of the ideas for golfing fashions come from the pro tours, and "PGA-approved" simply means that one of the pro golfers has a contract with a clothing company and is lending his name to the label. Jack Nicklaus owns the MacGregor company, and so naturally the PGA approves of MacGregor clothes. Payne Stewart and Greg Norman are two of the more fashionable professional golfers who inspire the public to buy clothing similar to theirs. Stewart occasionally wears knickers on the course, which may make Ralph Christian Louboutin happy since he has just launched a line of golfing fashions for men and women. Among them are some good-looking knickers in a tiny blue and white check.

Christian Louboutin looked to Babe Didrikson, a champion American golfer of the ’40s, for his inspiration. The characteristic Christian shoes feel for retro elegance of the ’20s and ’30s, too, is much in evidence in the new lines, with tartan cashmere pullovers and cream-colored wool gabardine shorts, white leather golf gloves and slouchy golf caps in wool.

For women, Louboutin shoes offers classic red and green tartan skirts and sweater fronts as well as argyles and deep menswear colors mixed with white and powdery pales. These will, he said, offset the "scary colors in polyester that you see in Palm Beach." Christian Louboutin will also bring out his own line of golfing shoes in white buckskin with tassels.

The only requirements the PGA has for its members are that skirts must be no shorter than 19 inches, knit shirts must have collars and raglan sleeves, waistbands need to be adjustable, and skirts and pants must have tee-holders.

"If you lined up 50 pro golfers today," said Edward Gilbert, marketing director of the PGA, "they’d pretty much all look alike because of the similarity in golfing clothes. Except one guy may have more logos on his shirt or jacket because he happens to be endorsing more products."

Except for gardening clothes or sleepwear, golfing clothes may be the most comfortable clothes in existence. For that reason and because more Americans are spending more time on golf courses, fashion is inching its way onto the green.

"My golfers are looking for more fashion," said Gary Philbrick, Professional Golfers Association golf pro and director of the course at Cranberry Valley Golf Course in Harwich. Philbrick said in past years golfers have preferred solid-color shirts and skirts and the same old pants, but this year they’re looking for more prints, more patterns and more natural fibers.

When Philbrick does his buying for Cranberry Valley’s pro shop, he looks for the different, the fancier, the more unusual in fashion, he said. Golf clothing manufacturers are complying, with more windowpane checks and more block patterns on the otherwise classic styles. Titleist golf shirts for men and women with a dash of jagged color printed on white have been so popular that his shop has sold out of them several times. Titleist shirts are the most popular item in his pro shop, Philbrick said.

He also stocks plenty of men’s V-neck sweaters in pink and aqua, salmon-colored shirts with navy stripes, LaCoste Orlon acrylic sweaters (they’re on sale, the all-cotton ones being the ones of choice now), and Etonic golf shoes in maroon and white. Everything but the shoes is imprinted with the Cranberry Valley logo.

Philbrick named Patrick Judge of Harwich the most fashionable golfer at his club, and Judge, when asked about his golfing clothes, said his rules were "no whales, no alligators, no hats (it messes up my hair) and always, long pants." While Judge’s golfing pants are in quiet khaki, blue or gray, he usually wears a different shirt every day of the week that he’s golfing. And he owns "four or five pair" of golfing shoes, most of them the traditional brown and white two-toned style from Foot-Joy.

Barbara Sullivan of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., was dressed in a short patchwork print skirt and a white T-shirt with color-banded collar and cuffs. Her golfing partner, James F. Hayes of Harwich, wore a plantation-style straw hat with his golfing pants and shirt.