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Willy Bogner Sr.

: If you were a skier in Canada in those dreary postwar years, you could buy any colour of ski pants so long as they were black, according to Globe and Mail. He followed the women to the base to ask who had made their ski wear. In the early 1950s, the Toronto furrier and clothing merchant found himself on the ski slopes in Gstaad, Switzerland, when he saw something astonishing: two young women in brightly coloured ski pants. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone This is how he discovered Bogner ski apparel, made in the Munich factory of Willy Bogner Sr., a former Olympic skier. Creed began to import and sell it at Creeds, the store his parents had built on a section of Toronto Bloor Street called the Mink Mile. Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.