At Myint Soe's garment factory on the outskirts of Rangoon, rows of women hunch over sewing machines and irons under neon lights, pressing, folding, hemming, in stifling heat.

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Shirley's in the kitchen wearing a bathrobe, huddled over a sewing machine, repairing the seam of a dress.

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The Banksy mural, depicting a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, disappeared from Whymark Avenue earlier this month.

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Imagine an order for 400, 000 pieces of one shirt style is spread over a four-line (meaning four rows of sewing machines, each row with 50 workers) factory of 1, 600 square meters.

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She got to New York, started sewing brassieres and didn't stop until Mr Geffen was rich enough to ship her over to Hollywood and buy her a house.

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