From its roots as working clothes for farmers and servants in south Germany and Austria, trachten has evolved over the years to become leisure wear at festivals and celebrations.
In the cities of the rich world no woman is expected to wear a garment until it is worn out. (Men, unaccountably, tend to hold on to their clothes for years, but the industry is working on the problem.) The clothes industry would be in a pickle without a constant supply of clients dissatisfied with the contents of their wardrobes.
There were 3000 people in the building at the time, many of them working on production lines making cheap clothes for British high street shops.
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.
Indeed, Howell might be seen to be working in a tradition unrelated to clothes, alongside British artists and designers whose works draw inspiration from the land, such as David Mellor with his Sheffield steelworks, Peter Lanyon's landscape abstractions and the organic forms of Henry Moore.
Posing as industry buyers in India, reporter Tom Heap and his team found some of India's poorest people working long, gruelling hours on Primark clothes in slum workshops and refugee camps.
"I've experienced 11 days docked at the space station, 16 days in space on my last flight, so getting back to life in zero gravity, that is never boring, everything from putting on your clothes to brushing your teeth to working to transfer of hardware, all of its fun in zero-g, " Marshburn told NASA before the launch.
The lifestyle aspect of the London store arose in part to help young designers working with her to understand her vision for the clothes.
The fund would serve as a unified clearinghouse that would collect payments from brands and maintain a transparent database of injured and dead workers, said Tessel Pauli of the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign, which is among the groups working to create the fund.
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.
The Clean Clothes Campaign, a charity group lobbying to improve working conditions in the garment industry, on Monday condemned a recent move by the European Union to relax restrictions on Myanmar, a step that could open the way for more garment manufacturing in the formerly military-run country.
Even better, while the beans simmered in a pot for most of the afternoon, a hard-working woman like my great-granny could get back to washing clothes, canning, gardening and looking after the children.
We will say "no" to kids going to bed hungry, "no" to kids who don't have the clothes to keep them warm, and "no" for any American working full time and living in poverty.
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