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German and Central European immigrants to America around the mid-19th century arrived on the scene with relevant business experience and skills just as garment production was passing from a proto-industrial phase to a more advanced stage of manufacture.
In the early twentieth-century a largely Eastern European immigrant workforce powered the garment trades.
Writing in 1917, Abraham Cahan credited these immigrants with the creation of American style:
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