garment industry
Example Sentences
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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
The textile and garment industry is Lesotho's largest private sector employer providing, at its peak, around 50,000 jobs, out of a population of just over two million.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
In the mid-1960s they moved to Los Angeles, where Socorro succeeded as an Avon saleswoman as well as a sample maker in the garment industry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025
The most important consequence of the miracle of the garment industry, though, was what happened to the children growing up in those homes where meaningful work was practiced.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
