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garment industry

NOUN
fashion industry
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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

Up until the 1990s, the readymade garment industry outsourced many tasks to home workers.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2024

About a dozen mostly immigrant businesses owners operated shops on the property off of Lawrence Street, making their livelihood storing and selling pallets, recycling, fixing cars and supplying fixtures to the nearby garment industry.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2024

“The conditions in the garment industry were every bit as bad,” Soyer goes on.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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