Word: seamster
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...flagship store in New York's Union Square. It is an unlikely success story. But Sait Akarlilar, the affable 63-year-old patriarch who created the brand in 1991, is nothing if not self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager he worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this...
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