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...Garment District is your shopping venueof choice, this Bostonian retro fashionshow is making styles from the '50s and '70snouvelle and hip again. Proceeds go toward AIDScauses. 4 to 6 p.m., 1721 Washington St./ SouthEnd, Boston. $5 in advance, $7 at door...
...child, self-proclaimed shorts guru Brian J. Averell `02 has thought a great deal about the shorts question. "First of all, frankly, my legs don't get cold because I'm running or walking everywhere. Pants don't do much," he says. Averell explains his complex theory on the garment: "I like to use reverse psychology on Mother Nature. People wear pants too early and Mother Nature sees this and makes it colder sooner. The way you get warm days is that some freak students like myself have been wearing shorts and She has seen us and made it warmer...
Sometimes in its zeal to dole out corporate welfare, the Federal Government finds itself working at cross-purposes. In 1997 a government agency issued a $29 million insurance policy to protect a new garment-manufacturing plant built in Turkey by Levi Strauss, the world's largest apparel manufacturer. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Labor was approving training grants and extended unemployment benefits for 6,400 workers whose jobs had been eliminated at 11 Levi's plants in this country--on the grounds that the layoffs were attributable to cheaper imports...
There are also some dark and lazy tracks: "You Turn the Screws" and "Hem of Your Garment" are vindictive and repentant, respectively. You have to wonder, though, why all singers long for some lost love all the time. Isn't there anything else to talk about? Not that McRea does a bad job being sorry or thinking about a girl, but you have to ask, is that all there is in life to sing about? Still, the strength of the beat and the intricacies of the music impress you; you can tell that you are in the presence of honest...
...China three years ago to join her husband, who had illegally entered the U.S. in 1991. She paid the snakeheads money her husband had borrowed and sent over. Almost immediately after reaching New York, she began working 17-hr. days, seven days a week, at a local garment factory. But because she was new and the factory paid piece rate, she made only $1 an hour. "Sometimes we had nothing for ourselves. I made less than $100 a week." She and her husband made so little money they couldn't afford to live together. He continued to sleep...