Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
Since April 17, 800 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America have been on strike against David Adler & Sons, Milwaukee garment makers, recent converts to nonunionism. Last week, strikers announced they would open a factory of their own, join the 12,000 makers and distributors of natty coats, pants and vests for Hart, Schaffner & Marx...
Died. Bernard A. Larger, 63, Labor leader, close associate of the late Samuel Gompers, onetime president and for 24 years secretary-treasurer of the United Garment Workers; of heart disease; in Coney Island...
...current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...