Garment \Gar"ment\, n. [OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. garnir to garnish. See {Garnish}.] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. --Matt. ix. 16.
In New York's garment district, work sometimes comes to a halt as word of yet another AIDS death spreads across Seventh Avenue.
In setting up its first profit-sharing plan recently, Itsnu Industries, a New York garment firm, chose the age-weighted approach.
The appeal of stardom faded for Drew during the 1940s, and he quit acting to enter the garment industry as a representative and maker, said his son, Damon Drew.
In Peshawar, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, six people were injured when a bomb went off in a crowded marketplace near a garment shop, said a police spokesman.
Little is confident Shorts can improve the capacity utilisation of its autoclave (curing oven) by studying a local bakery, and that a garment manufacturer can pass on valuable lessons about managing materials flow.
It is a perfect holiday garment - and you do not have to go to Kenya to get one.
The prospects for the luxury garment are better thanks to the strength of the brands, but still depend on the willingness of the wealthy to splash out.
As one textile manufacturer saw the prospect, 'this is a gift from God'. However, for the apparel sector, restrictions on Pakistani or other cheap imported cotton will merely add to garment producers' costs.
It will be very difficult for the garment industry to survive if we take a 12 per cent hike in wage costs each year.' Mr Ronald Chao, managing director of Novel Enterprises, adopts a similarly downbeat view.
Lord Cardigan led that charge in a brilliant gold-trimmed uniform. We remember him for a humbler garment.
In a formal reply to the report, the department also disputed GAO's premise that legal workers won't take many of the low-wage jobs, particularly in the shoe and garment industries.
Mr. Birnbaum is a garment manufacturer in Hong Kong.
There's a Portuguese market, Greek town, Jewish garment district and 50 other ethnic communities, a diversity celebrated at this month's Caravan of multicultural pavilions around the city.
Another time, after visiting immigrant workers from India's Bengal in a garment sweatshop, he looked shaken and angry.
Eager to grab Sri Lanka's garment quotas, overseas manufacturers, especially from Hong Kong and Singapore, were receptive to the government's entreaties in the late 1970s.
The garment draped across her shoulders might almost be a cardigan.
Seen from the flyblown garment district, official union leaders are a distant and privileged lot.
Smoking is prohibited on all US domestic flights. Try to pack light, and use a carry-on garment bag.
Analysts say labor-intensive sectors such as the construction and garment industries probably will be the first to feel the pinch.
Jerome Weidman and Harold Rome's 1961 musical about the New York garment trade, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," can be seen in an animated production at the American Jewish Theatre.
When Sharifa was 3 years old in 1959, King Zahir Shah decreed that women no longer had to wear the chadri, the tent-like pleated garment with a mesh opening over the eyes.
Hard hit by foreign-debt losses, the company saw relief in CIT's highly profitable specialty as a lender of last resort to small manufacturers, garment makers, contractors and other businessmen whose need for cash was chronic.
The potential for homework goes well beyond the garment industry.
A couple inside the same garment seemed to be skating.
The News said some teen-age alien workers seen during a task force sweep of eight garment operations last week appeared strained by the monotonous work and dilapidated surroundings.
But the seamless garment tends to rip apart in the world of practical politics.
Along Washington Boulevard, in the heart of the city's garment district, a hand-lettered sign hangs above a battered door.
In regions dependent on a single industry, such as garment making, the country faces acute social problems. The hardest-hit area is likely to be the northern Vale do Ave textile region, where some 120 firms with more than 30,000 workers are in difficulty.
Singh, who plans to establish a garment factory in the Philippines, said, "I don't think the coup will affect foreign investments, if the government acts swiftly."
If that does happen the moisture can freeze when the garment is removed.