Textile Worker Gifts

'Of course I support poor children. That's why I bought this dress, handmade by a 12-years old Indian girl that earns only 30 cents a day.'

Commodity Chains - Notes on the Global Garment Industry.

"Your new sweater was made someplace named Usa. Must be a city in China."

Bond Textiles, we live to dye another day!

Hanley Fabric Co., Polly-Esther

'There's no word for leisure in your language.'

Sweat Shop: 'You'd think they'd at least let us buy the seconds at a discount.'

Deadly fashion

Is it true the company is moving to the Far East?

Frank's Vaults. I used to run a textile mill in New Delhi, but I quit to manufacture bank vaults … I figured better safe than sari.

'The Queen of Industry; Or, The New South'

Gentlemen wearing safety monocles in their workspace.

"I didn't even know they could knit!"

I quilt therefore I am

Arts and crafts

'These are called, 'Diet Pants.' They'll never fit, but you'll burn 250 calories trying to get into them.'

"Of course I care about the environment, I never throw any clothes away."

"Stop me before I invent plaid!"

'Do you have any relaxed fit jeans that aren't quite so relaxed?'

'You've agreed to work Sundays, haven't you!'

'Funny, I see images of shoes, wallets and belts...'

This Saturday 10:30 Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Doctor, Nurse, Policeman, Shop Worker, Lollipop Lady, Butcher, Baker, Housewife, Schoolboy...

"Whoa. Jeff. You snagged your sweater."

Paisley isn't either the new plaid!

"December 29, 1991: Janet sacrifices months of self esteem therapy for the perfect New Year's Eve dress." "It's called an 'Everest' gown because it would be a monumental task to squeeze that mountain you call an ass into it."

Cultivating Toughness in Footballs.

"I'm having my annual reunion with Polartec, Thinsulate, fleece, and my oldest friend, wool."

'That's the material I want for our new lounge curtains.'

"Wow, you're right, Alpaca Wool is very nice against the skin..."

The old colonel wished he was in the land of cotton.

'It's the latest weave - comes off in the hand.'

"No the you shop noise doesn't bother me. This protects me from the incessant Christmas music."

It's a new miracle fabric, of course.

Wooly mammoth

Spinning Wheel