"You don't control smoking, it controls you," says Linda Costigan, a bookkeeper for a children's wear manufacturer in Manhattan, who began smoking 33 years ago, when she was 12.

The bride's stepfather is the chief executive of Peerless Clothing, a men's wear manufacturer in Montreal.

"You can't do that just as a mens' wear manufacturer."

Mr. Gaither operated a computer terminal at the Russell Corporation, an athletic wear manufacturer, in nearby Alexander City.

Last month, Walsh Greenwood offered to buy the Rochester-based athletic wear manufacturer for $52 a share, but the bid was rejected.

Her father owns a representative concern in New York for men's wear manufacturers.

His father, now retired, was an executive at Master Trouser Corporation, a men's wear manufacturer in New York.

Hartmarx , the men's wear manufacturer, struggled along through a continuing soft market for men's tailored clothing, losing $1.5 million in its last quarter.

Over the years, he maintained a long-standing relationship with Liz Claiborne Inc., one of the largest women's wear manufacturers in the country.

Mr. Tanner, 40, a New York-based marketing consultant to Italian men's wear manufacturers, was a guest of one of the birthday girls.