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Every morning 24-year-old Shahida Begum leaves her home in a Dhaka slum, wends her way through a posh diplomatic enclave and turns up for work at a garment factory overlooking the U.S. embassy. It's a commute she may not be making much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that next year the American and European companies that buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers, leading to a shutdown of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense...
...Garment District...
...Garment District is the cooler, racier cousin of Boston Costume. Before entering, take a deep breath—this shop is not for the faint-hearted. The second floor is packed with racks of clothing, from intricate, multi-piece expensive costumes to vintage shirts, shoes and tacky pearl necklaces. And for all the wannabe bio concentrators, The Garment District’s selection of lab coats will make your heart pound. Shopping at The Garment District without direction is chaotic. With an idea in mind, however, this is the best place to piece together the crazy costume of your dreams
...production, compared with about 25% from China. But Chinese output is expected to double this year, and for the next few years Luen Thai plans to increase head count at its Dongguan facility from 5,000 to 14,000. In May, Luen Thai sold off its garment-making business in Mexico. Meanwhile, the company is constructing a second facility outside the neighboring city of Guangzhou that will be triple the size of the Dongguan compound...
...those two were not unsettling enough, later there is the figure of the fertility god Xipe Totec, circa 1500. Known to the Aztecs as "our flayed lord," he wears a pebbly garment that represents flayed human skin with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...