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...doing that while investing in something tangible—Iraqi higher education—in an apolitical movement.” Although Jafar just started selling the shirts last week, she has joked with her parents, who both graduated from Baghdad University, about putting their alma mater on college apparel for several years. After working with the Iraqi Ministry of Education at the Iraq embassy in Washington, D.C. last summer, Jafar had the idea to use such T-shirts to raise money for Iraqi higher education, aiming to defray as many expenses as possible for Iraqi students studying abroad. Elizabeth...
...Most apparel manufacturers went overseas in search of cheaper labor years ago--90% of the clothes Americans buy come from places like China, Mexico, Bangladesh, Honduras, Indonesia and Vietnam. Nearly a million people in the U.S. worked in apparel manufacturing in 1990; today fewer than 200,000 do, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an obliteration of the field in less than 20 years. Yet within this classic example of globalization, Brooks Brothers has a message: Sometimes it makes sense to stay at home...
...fair to the legions of apparel manufacturers who have gone overseas, the economics of making a Brooks Brothers tie in the U.S. are far different from those of making, say, plain cotton underwear. About 70% of the cost of making a Brooks tie comes from materials (the company imports almost all its silk fabric from England and Italy), which leaves a fairly small fraction of the cost coming from labor. Compare that with making a Brooks shirt, for which the proportion is flipped--just 30% of the cost of production is from the material--and it's easy...
...wares such as made to order and the Golden Fleece brand. Most of the others come from Malaysia. "Part of it is the prestige of having shirts handcrafted in our own factory," says Dixon. "It's a marketing initiative." The tie factory, though, offers no such appeal. Even most apparel insiders don't know that all 1.7 million Brooks ties produced annually are made in New York...
...shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth of 44,200 textile firms tracked by the China National Textile and Apparel Council lost money last year, and two-thirds are just breaking even. "Manufacturers' profits are so low that when they hit the slightest snag, they have to close," says...