But there's also another threat to the local industries: Chinese imports that are even cheaper than the Western hand-me-downs and locally made clothes.
Ms. Savage organizes her dresses including more than 50 black cocktail numbers, some couture but also some family hand-me-downs and vintage by color weave and sleeve length.
His father died when he was ten, and his family was so poor that he wore ragged hand-me-downs to school, including, when he was six, a dress his older sister had grown out of.
The thermostat was kept at bone-chilling temperatures, we drove our green Ford Fairlaine until it (literally) burst into flames at a toll booth and I wore a never-ending supply of hand-me-downs from a cousin named Amy whom I had never met.