Word: garments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crahan ’04 sashays down the stairs clad only in a Speedo and glasses. FM is slightly unprepared. Crahan, unwilling to comment but offering his status on the swim team as an excuse, later pulled on a regular bathing suit, though he flashed the revealing garment underneath an uncomfortable number of times throughout the evening...
...Minnie Driver for Southeast Asia's garment workers The star of the movie Good Will Hunting visited Cambodia and Thailand last month to highlight their plight, visiting factories and hosting a fashion show featuring the workers as models...
...design, Kwan Jung Ran, the idea is to show that beauty hides in the least obvious places. "Denim is vintage, casual and popular. We added extravagant items, such as crystals and traditional patterns, to show that even denim can change from the most inexpensive clothing into the most luxurious garment...
What sets H&M apart from most competition is its lightning turnaround--a garment can move from design to hanger in just 20 days. (Only Zara can go faster--14 days--but its prices are 30% to 50% higher than H&M's. By comparison, Gap's minimum turnaround is three months, though almost all the merchandise is produced in nine.) As a result, H&M can add looks that weren't in its collections or increase quantities if an item takes off. For example, last fall, when mod miniskirts began to sell, H&M tripled the original order...
...those who can avoid the unscrupulous bosses who make workers falsify their time sheets so they work longer hours for the same pay. Then there are the fruit pickers who have exorbitant housing costs deducted by labor contractors who warehouse the workers in filthy barracks. As for garment workers, they can be paid at piece rates--try three-fourths of a cent per piece to sew in a zipper on jeans--that make it nearly impossible to earn the minimum...