One of these sweatshop factories had made clothes destined for the UK in recent months.
The company now offers a system for custom-made clothes, a sort of Savile Row by mouse-click.
As a child, she made clothes for her stuffed animals, and later in life, she sewed her own clothes.
After the fire in Tazreen Fashions, which made clothes for the American company, the retailer terminated the contract with the supplier.
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.
Once one of the performers on Kenya's emerging hip-hop scene, his brand started to shine when he made clothes for his musician friends.
He made clothes from animal skins, speared fish with homemade lances, foraged for cabbage and black plums, and built a shelter of pimento wood.
Ms. Akter, who made clothes for Phantom on the fifth floor, said she was evacuated with other workers on Tuesday after a large crack appeared on an exterior wall near the third floor.
It's even more difficult to figure out if your clothes are made in safe factories if you're buying from retailers that don't specifically market their clothes as ethically made.
However, he has made the clothes so excessively neat and fit, that when he brought them home, the King spoke to him himself and commended them.
The same hip-hop crowd that made the clothes famous eventually helped to sink the brand, after white suburban kids decided that they'd had enough of the gangsta look.
The old bomb shelter beneath the city's central plaza is packed with stalls selling clothes made in South Korea.
In the case of the summer's Hawaiian shirt craze, for instance, clothes made from conception to stores in about a month.
Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.
Galatioto has been making trips to local shops in the Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn that sells a lot of clothes made locally.
Then as now, both men had clothes made by the famous Brooklyn tailor Martin Greenfield, although Katz pairs his suits with braces depicting the Statue of Liberty.
One poll taken after the building collapse in Bangladesh found that 30% of Americans said that buying clothes made under safe working conditions is very important to them.
But following the November fire at Tazreen, where clothes made for Wal-Mart were found, the retailer issued a stricter set of supplier guidelines on safety requirements for Bangladesh.
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The 128 megabyte jacket, made by Bavarian clothes firm rosner with the help of German chipmaker Infineon, was showcased at the world's largest fashion trade fair, CPD Woman-Man, held in Dusseldorf, Germany over the weekend.
Another shopper at Zara, Mary Park, said she isn't bothered by where the clothes are made.
They say more shoppers are starting to pay attention to labels and where their clothes are made.
After the clothes are made, Forever 21 ships apparel to stores from the distribution center in its headquarters building.
Ms Jones's shop, Vintage Couture 77, sold vintage clothing and Ms Rudd's shop, Jim and Jemima, sold home-made children's clothes.
Jennifer Galatioto, a 31-year-old fashion photographer from Brooklyn, is among the shoppers who have become thoughtful about where her clothes are made.
Ms Jones's shop, Vintage Couture 77, will sell vintage clothing and Ms Rudd's shop, Jim and Jemima, will sell home-made children's clothes.
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But when it comes to making sure that their clothes are made in factories that are safe for workers, the couple fall short.
Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.
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On a dusty patch of ground now stands rack upon rack of western clothes, made perhaps in China or other parts of Asia but already worn in Europe or America and then given away to charities to be sold, for very little, all over Africa, even in places like Lundazi.
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