Word: garments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk, and eventually became foreman of the shipping department...
...high school education, which my father lacked. ("Him who never finished high school," she would mutter when Pop pulled rank on family matters.) Before emigrating, Mom had worked as a stenographer in a lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the Capitol and the flag in the background, hanging in the foyer of our apartment for as long...
Sometimes the borrowing is for keeps. Manufacturers ship piles of clothing to the magazines for their photo shoots. When the garment bags are returned, they are sometimes considerably lighter. "There would be a certain amount of evaporation,'' recalls Michael Borden, a former Mademoiselle style director...
...remember seeing my grandmother's prison dress from Auschwitz for the first time when I was very young. It was nothing much to speak of, a simple striped pattern on poor person's cloth. Yet somehow this garment had complexity woven into it as well, a product of the loom of nationalism, bigotry and inhumanity that gave rise to that most unfathomable of evils--the Nazi Holocaust...
...loyal personal secretary, who had claimed to have erased just a small part of the tape accidentally. The memo, written by Woods' attorney and made public today by the National Archives as part of a cache of more than 35,000 Woods documents, states that White House lawyers Leonard Garment and Fred Buzhardt told U.S. Judge John Sirica that Miss Woods intentionally erased the tape. Garment today denied the episode. Woods, now 77, hasn't commented...