The rag trade is extremely competitive, and one needs plenty of contacts in order to survive.

服装业竞争极为激烈，要想生存就要有足够的关系。

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My aspiration is that I can manage the rag trade after graduating from college.

我的愿望是大学毕业后能经营服装业。

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And the rag trade is as footloose as its customers are fickle. It goes wherever clothes can be made cheaply and reliably.

客户朝三暮四，服装业也随之自由不羁，哪地制衣便宜可靠，它就奔哪儿去。

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Green attributes his success not to cheap acquisitions but to a lifetime of plying the rag trade.

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Their work included the BBC hit The Rag Trade, which also starred Varney.

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In 1970, after some 25 years of growing success in the rag trade, he launched himself as Bill Blass Ltd.

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