This is a surmountable obstacle: Cutting and sewing are the last steps in the apparel-manufacturing process.
There are vast amounts of food staples, tea, sugar, tires, car batteries and sewing machines in the warehouses.
While mail sorters and carpenters are male-dominated, for example, office workers and sewing machine operators are female-dominated occupations.
Jan talks to the customers and prepares the designs, while Gisella is the one cutting the fabric and sewing.
Their original store in Xalapa, Veracruz, sold fabric, clothes, and sewing supplies and was called El Puerto de Beyrouth.
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Brother is a leading global manufacturer of laser, label and multi-function printers, as well as fax machines and sewing machines.
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That will allow China to move up the value chain and redeploy its labor force away from assembling high tech products and sewing fabric together.
And that she does the manly, macho thing of cutting people up and sewing them back together, while I do women's work: talking them through their problems.
The apparel industry employs plenty of Americans, just not in the cutting and sewing operations that our parents and grandparents endured, working long hours for low wages.
Hudson, Ohio, based Jo-Ann Stores is a national hobby and craft retailer that sells fabrics, yarns, knitting and sewing supplies and accessories through 750 retail stores and online.
This is not the kind of answer I expect from a designer when asked about his own fashion essentials, especially one who started sketching and sewing clothes at age six.
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Led by Jennifer Rothwell and Eoin McDonnell, the collective makes the most of its space at 51 South William Street, where work is created at jeweller's benches and sewing machines on-site.
Stitch is decorated with Singer machines and sewing patterns, while Mojo Record Bar, occupying space next to a record shop, keeps true to its cool, rock vibe with album covers lining the bar.
Her volunteer position as administrative assistant in the business office of a small college mandated working forty hours per week, but evenings and weekends were free for hiking and kayaking, reading, writing, and sewing Tlingit moccasins.
She began working with beads and sewing as a child on the La Jolla Luiseno Reservation in California, and at 22, became the youngest artist to earn best in show at New Mexico's Santa Fe Market, the largest crafts fair in Indian Country.
What we do is we get every quilting circle and church group in America to start making Mylar screens and sewing them together like quilt, and then we put them into the ocean, where they reflect the sun's rays and keep the water underneath cooler.
Could Ralph Lauren -- the brand atop the long, integrated supply chain that takes apparel ideas from conception all the way to the consumer -- have forgone use of the Chinese factories that do most of the brand's cutting and sewing operations and, instead, contracted with U.S. factories for the Olympic uniform project?
The fields with the biggest job drops, perhaps not surprisingly: farmers and ranchers, sewing machines operators, and office order clerks.
Cooks and seamstresses in tiny dress shops now have laptops alongside their pans and old sewing machines allowing them to day trade at work.
She said she would help me to buy materials and the sewing machine I needed (to) create a small platform for myself, which made me so grateful.
Four tiny shops were combined into one to create the knickknack-crammed Dawno Temu Na Kazimierzu, brimming with mannequins, brass chandeliers, rocking horses and tables fashioned out of sewing machines and workbenches.
"Some of them couldn't even walk properly and if they did something in their free time they would be knitting or sewing and sitting all the time...here they run, shout, fight with you...it keeps them young, " she said.
It looked more like a farm with a few concrete buildings, no visible machinery, mud and straw huts, women sewing clothing, and children and animals milling about.
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Largely Hispanic and Korean, the business dominates much of downtown, with fabric mills, cutting, sewing and finishing shops, and street upon street of warehouses and storefronts.
What she does now is the culmination of all her old interests and hobbies: sewing costumes, playing violin, video editing.
In 1870, Mary Walker used her savings from years of sewing and caregiving to purchase a home near Harvard on Brattle Street.
Andrews Fashion Show, remembering the hours of sewing and production efforts students put into this amateur hour that drew unprecedented crowds and eventually the attention of a future king.
Students train in industrial electricity, welding, sewing and computers.
The price of steel in particular fell by 80 percent between 1880 and 1900, with resulting knock-on effects in the prices of everything from pots and pans through sewing machines to printing presses.
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Workshops that teach the basics of sewing and quilting, as well as an introduction to the use of soft circuits and conductive fabrics that are increasingly used in projects (see eTextile expert Lynne Bruning profile late last year).
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