In his free time, he gave apples to the poor, or helped soothe labor-management tensions within New York's " tumultuous " garment industry.

However, over the last 5 years, the garment industry has suffered from reduced export earnings, continued factory closures, and rising unemployment.

Though mechanization transformed most aspects of human industry by the mid-20th century, garment workers have continued to labor under challenging conditions that demand repetitive manual labor.

The town continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, becoming a centre for Norwegian textile and garment industry, as well as the administrative center for the region, and a major tourist destination.

Molde continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries, becoming a center for Norwegian textile and garment industry.

The Vasilantone patent was licensed by multiple manufacturers, the resulting production and boom in printed t-shirts made the rotary garment screen printing machine the most popular device for screen printing in the industry.

Queen Alexandra, the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, ordered a mole-fur garment to start a fashion that would create a demand for mole fur, thereby turning what had been a serious pest problem in Scotland into a lucrative industry for the country.

The Fijian garment industry has developed rapidly since the introduction of tax exemptions in 1988.

His legitimate business interests included areas as diverse as the garment industry ( three coat factories and a laundry ), cheese factories, funeral homes, and a trucking company.

The proximity of the fashion industry has kept some garment work in the local area though most of the garment industry has moved to China.

The local garment industry now concentrates on quick production in small volumes and piece-work ( paid by the piece ) which is generally done at the worker's home.

With the demise of the textile industry, many of the city's mills were occupied by smaller companies, some in the garment industry, traditionally based in the New York City area but attracted to New England by the lure of cheap factory space and an eager workforce in need of jobs.

The garment industry survived in the city well into the 1990s but has also largely become a victim of globalization and foreign competition.

This replacement for the " whalebone " material was welcomed by the garment industry of the late 19th century.

* Jaime Lucero ( born 1957 ), Mexican-American garment industry executive.

The woman most frequently worked as seamstresses in the garment industry or in their homes.

Many single women were employed in the garment industry as seamstresses, often in unsafe working environments.

Angela Bambace, an 18-year-old Italian American woman, organized the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York to secure better working conditions and shorter hours for women workers in the garment industry.

Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California to Lois Beatrice Edwards, a union organizer in the garment industry.

In her concurrent position as Executive Director of the Garments and Textile Export Board, Arroyo oversaw the rapid growth of the garment industry in the late 1980s.

and use of the foam for garment interlining is only now getting off the ground, with volume potential in the offing.

A specimen or garment is washed in a cylindrical reversing wash wheel, dried and subjected to restorative forces where necessary.

Generally, it is necessary to mark distances on a specimen ( or garment ) in both lengthwise and widthwise directions and to measure before and after laundering.

An aegis (; ) is either a large collar or cape worn in ancient times to display the protection provided by a high religious authority, or a bag-like garment containing a protective shield signifying the same.

Costume jewelry ( also called trinkets, fashion jewelry, junk jewelry, fake jewelry, or fallalery ) is jewelry manufactured as ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable costume or garment.

Costume jewelry is meant to complement a particular fashionable garment or " costume "; Hence the name, " costume jewelry ".

The authors of the study interpreted this as being the result of the ease by which primary commodities may be extorted or captured compared to other forms of wealth, for example, it is easy to capture and control the output of a gold mine or oil field compared to a sector of garment manufacturing or hospitality services.

An effective and relatively cheap method to prevent transmission of V. cholera is the practice of folding a sari ( a long fabric garment ) multiple times to create a simple filter for drinking water.

The corset is another staple garment of the dominatrix signification.

In a garment from Migration period Sweden, roughly 300 – 700 CE, the edges of bands of trimming are reinforced with running stitch, back stitch, stem stitch, tailor's buttonhole stitch, and whipstitching, but it is uncertain whether this work simply reinforces the seams or should be interpreted as decorative embroidery.

Manufacturing activity is modest, consisting mainly of a garment factory in Yap and production of buttons from trochus shells.

If you look at icons of Jesus and Mary: Jesus wears red undergarment with a blue outer garment ( God become Human ) and Mary wears a blue undergarment with a red overgarment ( human was granted gifts by God ), thus the doctrine of deification is conveyed by icons.

A tallit katan ( small tallit ) is a fringed garment worn under the clothing throughout the day.

The most common texture for a knitted garment is that generated by the flat stockinette stitch — as seen, though very small, in machine-made stockings and T-shirts — which is worked in the round as nothing but knit stitches, and worked flat as alternating rows of knit and purl.

The appearance of a garment is also affected by the weight of the yarn, which describes the thickness of the spun fibre.

Seamless knitting, where a whole garment is knit as a single piece, is also possible.

The is a Japanese traditional garment worn by men, women and children.

The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century.

Although the kilt is most often worn on formal occasions and at Highland games and sports events, it has also been adapted as an item of fashionable informal male clothing in recent years, returning to its roots as an everyday garment.

It is a tailored garment that is wrapped around the wearer's body at the natural waist ( between the lowest rib and the hip ) starting from one side ( usually the wearer's left ), around the front and back and across the front again to the opposite side.

And, at the end, when the tyrant is at bay at Dunsinane, Caithness sees him as a man trying in vain to fasten a large garment on him with too small a belt: " He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause / Within the belt of rule " ( V, 2, ll.