hoodies

    By Jorgen Wouters

    | 4:00PM 7/12/2011
    Macy's Inc. has agreed to pay a $750,000 penalty for selling dangerous, drawstring-equipped children's clothing, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced. Children's upper outerwear with drawstrings, such as sweatshirts, sweaters and jackets, pose a strangulation hazard that...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 4:30PM 3/05/2010
    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is moving toward forbidding companies that sell, make or import children's clothing from offering outerwear with drawstrings after a sweep by the agency found numerous violations of its 14-year-old guidelines regarding the products, WalletPop.com has...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 4:00PM 3/27/2009
    Five times this week and once more earlier this month, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued notices to the public that hooded sweatshirts were being recalled because they had drawstrings. Drawstrings, the CPSC, has said, is a leading cause of strangulation among children. Of 38...