Fashion: Out of the Rocker

She has ginger-brown eyes, a kinetic smile and the gentle gemiitlich ways generally attributed in home-stitched samplers and anonymous Hallmark verse to that typical, twinkly little lady who is Everybody's Grandmother. Unfortunately, however, Florence Eiseman, 65, is grandmother only to seven little boys and girls in Milwaukee, Wis. To the rest of the world, she is the designer of the handsomest children's clothes in the U.S., and the envy of millions of grandmothers daily beseeched by their millions of daughters to get out of the rocker and learn to sew.

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