But contracts to make clothes for foreign brands sometimes are subcontracted to factories in such buildings.
Nike currently uses 13 Indonesian factories to make shoes, and 17 to make clothes.
Contemporary materials are lighter, with synthetic blends, stretch, embellishment and texture all of which make clothes look modern.
Some make clothes, some start nightclubs, some open warehouses or car- repair shops.
Some new outfits draw on the city's tradition of tailoring, winning contracts to make clothes for companies with smart names like Pierre Cardin.
Its four fermentation towers, each nine stories high, use engineered bugs to turn corn glucose into a chemical building block used to make clothes and cosmetics.
She wants to expand, by adding a storefront to the side of her house and hiring two young women to make clothes on the two sewing machines she owns.
Wal-Mart will also set up an independent call center for garment workers to report unsafe conditions and conduct fire safety training for every worker in the Bangladesh factories that make clothes for the U.S. retailing giant.
That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
To be sure, most global retailers have standards for workplace safety in the factories that make their clothes.
One of the first to live stream its runway show online and to make the clothes immediately available for purchase as soon as they hit the runway.
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"I think in those days a lot of people's mothers used to get their machines out and make curtains or clothes, " she recalls.
If we all had to grow our own crops, make our own clothes, and manufacture our own medicines, we would never enjoy the standards of living we now enjoy.
Do the clothes make the US Olympians less patriotic?
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"This is why I became a dressmaker because I could make my own clothes and actually avoid this entire scenario of having to traipse around and find something that may fit without having to compromise, " she says.
The disaster, which comes after a fire in another Bangladesh factory killed 112 people last November, also highlights something just as troubling for socially conscious shoppers: It's nearly impossible to make sure the clothes you buy come from factories with safe working conditions.
But what is the point then of stripping off clothes to make a political point?
Claudio has shown that value can be unlocked--and that clothes can make the man.
The designer says she likes her clothes to make the wearer feel at once defiant and protected.
Shedding clothes to make a point about invasive airport security practices has been going on since at least 2010.
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He briefed them on the plan, and gave them Studio 6 business cards and clothes to make them look more Hollywood.
They understand that clothes do make the man, that if you look like a slob, you'll get treated like a slob.
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If the process is inexpensive enough, it could make for more durable clothes that last longer and need to be cleaned much less frequently.
Both are frontiersmen of a sort, both wear clothes that make them easy to identify and now they both count lassos among their essential tools.
Ibn Ali was one of the orphanages Father visited, often taking Naima and me with him, to deliver food or clothes or make a donation.
It claims that girls feel under pressure to wear clothes that make them look older and have to cope with advertising and magazines selling adult images.
Brian Schweitzer is seldom seen in Montana without a gun (in Washington, he had to make do with denim clothes, a bolo tie and cowboy boots).
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