Her mother, Nan, designed sportswear and her father, Jack, produced it.
In 1988, he moved to Manhattan, opened a shop and started designing sportswear: skintight stretch dresses so snug, he said, "they looked like shrunken clothes."
She also designed sportswear and traveled as a lecturer.
Borea was a sportswoman and especially enjoyed designing sportswear because she had usually found it difficult to buy sportswear which was both comfortable and inexpensive.
He also designed sportswear that was sold at Barneys New York.
He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women.
Supplanting the look is a variety of unpretentiously designed sportswear whose red, white and blue coloring may be its only link with authentic nautical garb.
His father, Jesse, owned a textile business in the garment district and one of his aunts, Stella Sloat, designed sportswear for Jackie Kennedy.
Horn pointed out that Calvin Klein is a sportswear house, not a dress house, and Costa is gifted with a talent for designing sportswear.
Interchangeable Parts So she has planned a good part of her resort collection around these interchangeable parts, just as if she were designing sportswear.