In many ways, her 2 1/2-year-old company represents everything about the American garment industry - good and bad.

Since then, of the 700,000 Americans employed in the garment industry, 100,000 have lost their jobs.

For many others in the garment industry, the concerns are more local - and personal.

But the country's garment industry is working to make sure that the moment never ends.

He noted that Manufacturers was particularly strong in the garment industry.

His mother, Carmen, used to run a press in the garment industry, but no longer works.

"But we don't buy no more, because the garment industry is dying down."

In the garment industry, there is a term of art for this.

New York's garment industry is but a shadow of its former self.

"My entire work experience was within the garment industry, starting out as a buyer."

Bring back the clothing industry and see what that does for us.

Where are the two main centres for the clothing industry?

"The clothing industry that begins with size 14 and up is very profitable."

It's as if the clothing industry no longer believes in its primary reason for being, to cover the body.

Many of the early immigrants, both men and women, worked in the clothing industry on arrival to London.

Some products outside the clothing industry are already being made this way.

For example, someone working in the clothing industry can get a deduction of £60 each year.

The French clothing industry has lost 134 000 jobs since 1986.

"So we're doing a lot of thinking about what a sustainable clothing industry could look like in five years."

The clothing industry is responsible for the presence of over 400 small factories.

Remember I was saying to you about the whole of the rag trade?

As a city it has a great deal to offer - especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade.

All this made for high drama in the rag trade.

It's certainly true that death and resurrection of the suit is a stock story in the rag trade.

But where the shelves of food and household goods once stood, the rag trade has taken over.

His father founded a commercial firm dealing largely in the "rag trade".

It doesn't work that way in the rag trade that.

The curse of the rag trade, after all, is the enormous lag time.

Pretty can be an insult in the rag trade.

She was too reserved to make it in the rough-and-tumble rag trade, they said.