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...openings they have sought for years. They want tariff reductions on products ranging from T shirts to footwear, leather goods to sugar. Colombia is struggling to move through Congress an expanded Andean Trade Preferences Act that would establish a graduated duty system, starting with no tariff, for textiles and apparel. "An important number of U.S. buyers shy away from Colombia because of the internal conflict," says Ronald Bakalarz, president of Stanton & Co., a Bogota-based footwear company. "But the more employment we create, the fewer people will feel compelled to join the guerrillas...
Conventional wisdom says it's financial suicide to open a garment factory in the U.S. Why set up here when your competition has long since fled to sweatshops offshore? Judging by the success of the American Apparel company--which opened a massive T-shirt factory in Los Angeles three years ago--"Made in the U.S.A." still makes good business sense. Says owner Dov Charney, 32: "My competitors located production centers thousands of miles from their design rooms and marketplace. It's like making prefab homes in India and trying to sell them here...
...wear on weekends.” Fick believes that Hootenanny’s edge comes from opening this niche of fun, racy clothing to a wider base of potential costumers. Unlike stores who cater exclusively to a goth or punk audience, Hootenanny brings rock, punk, goth and club apparel together in an atmosphere that is intriguing rather than intimidating...
Halloween is just around the corner, and many Harvard students have already started their costume shopping. Last Saturday, the American Repertory Theatre (ART) transformed its lobby into a flea market-style bazaar, with apparel and accessories from the costume shop upstairs...
...implement a living wage; to preside over a University where people of color are dramatically under-represented in the faculty and over-represented in service work; to keep the Harvard Corporation a secret and unaccountable body; to deepen the area housing crisis; to permit the production of Harvard apparel in sweatshops—is to refuse to respect all members of the Harvard community and the people it affects. As Summers himself told the Los Angeles Times in 1998, “It’s not enough to have a larger pie unless everyone is getting a larger piece...