Even when nothing is moving or flying, the sound of machines is always audible over the performers, who wear oversized microphones to deliver their lines.

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Cronk, who also designs three lines of ready-to-wear jeans, attributes the interest in handmade, special-order jeans to a growing malaise toward mass-produced goods.

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"The people who have to wear uniforms every day are on the front lines of corporate America, " he says, with a touch of pride.

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