Our main exports, tea, rubber, cocoa and garments, all became uncompetitive in the world market.
Five hundred dresses and garments have been catalogued and photographed over the past 18 months for the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection.
The rush to Bangladesh began in earnest in 2005, when an international trade quota system called the Multi Fiber Arrangement expired, lifting the strict limit on the amount of textiles and garments developing countries could export to developed countries.
This type of financing has been dominated by the retail and garments industries, but has spread to other business sectors that have accounts receivable or other assets, according to Brian Cove, chief operating officer at the association, a New York-based trade group.
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Two of the world's biggest clusters of manufacturers are in northern Greece and southern China, where pelts are cut and assembled into garments and accessories, often in family-run businesses.
Altogether, they produced several million shirts, pants and other garments a year.
The Clothes On Their Backs - a story about survival and how garments inform who we are by Orange prize-winner Linda Grant - also makes it into the longlist.
The Shapeways site has an entire category dedicated to fashion which is largely made up of accessories, but once designers figure out how to stitch all the pieces together we should be seeing more and more garments.
Two-thirds of the world's toys, 45% of its wristwatches and one-third of its consumer electronics, garments and footwear are made there.
These include a series of small and mid-sized firms--in fields as diverse as garments and agricultural machinery, steel and energy equipment--that have managed to thrive in recent years.
And examples of ancient silk garments, accessories and textiles are being shown outside China for the first time as Nottingham Castle hosts the Living in Silk exhibition as part of the East Midlands' Cultural Olympiad, the council said.
The vest is wearable over other garments and is fastened over the lower body with Velcro.
Hong Kong itself is the globe's largest importer of farmed pelts and exports more garments than anyone.
Look in the back of the closet at the garments and whole outfits you forgot you have.
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Invest in a hand steamer, which will "sterilize garments and kill bacteria because of the heat, " he says.
Just this one company makes millions of garments and accessories a year for several American and global retailers.
It toppled on a row of shanties in which garments and daily wage workers were sleeping, reports said.
When I stayed there recently, the place was bustling with fashion-istas in town to showcase their garments and accessories.
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The time to build coalitions is before you are stripped bare of your garments and the vultures are circling overhead.
We have all become accustomed to the security screening routine in all American airports: take off your jackets, sweaters and any outer garments.
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He reckons that its development had more to do with the needs of sporty Victorians and that two garments informed the design of the suit jacket.
Labor relations are less than ideal in the garment trade, but Hays has built loyalty right down to the people who cut the cloth and assemble the garments.
Desert Artisans' wares, in turn, find their way onto the shelves of Fabindia, a leading retail chain of handcrafted garments and home products, including furniture, upholstery, handwoven rugs and organic foods.
From China, his company takes online orders in 17 languages for all kinds of customized garments and gadgets, fulfills them in Chinese factories, and ships the goods direct to consumers worldwide.
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Founded by Salvatore Ferragamo in 1927, in Florence Italy, this season, Ferragamo, in my estimation, had opened up its useful efficiencies of skilled garments and brought forth a readiness of change that is more advanced in achievement than expected in the essentials.
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However, going a step further in this top ten is Refinity, looking to enable the wearer to constantly redesign the pattern and look of their clothes, just as BLESSUS allow wearers to alter the cut and design of garments using a zipper system.
What is it about truly challenging games that makes them so addictive and so much fun to play, even while we gnash our teeth, rend our garments, and gray our hair in the process?
We begin in the closet, dissecting pieces and wardrobe categories, and using those individual garments as a springboard to discuss lifestyle, aesthetic preferences, areas of body consciousness, frustrations, and comfort zones.
The fourth-generation family business sources and processes crocodilian skin for high-end handbags, watchstraps, shoes, garments, belts and wallets.
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