The Descente Solar Alpha clothing is available at sportswear stores.

Last April a women's sportswear store called Gabby's, named for Donna Karan's daughter Gabrielle, opened.

Miss Koven, 29 years old, is a manager at the Lodge, a sportswear store in Princeton, N.J.

On the ground floor, a sportswear store and a restaurant pay more than half of the building's rent receipts - about $4,000 a month.

"It was a renter's market when I came here three years ago," noted David Daval, the owner of Daval, a sportswear store.

In Stanley, we found some good prices on brand-name fleece jackets at River One, a sportswear store on Highway 75; (208) 774-2270.

Mr. Partida, who owns a children's sportswear store, was an organizer of the shopping-cart protest at Vivodist.

Another small chain on the avenue is Vim, which has eight men's and women's sportswear stores in moderate-income neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

The bridge has since become a Steve and Barry's sportswear store.

And with 85 hours to go, Harris Friedman's sportswear store was already a wreck.