Microsoft has joined the wearable health-monitoring fray with its new “Microsoft Band,” a wrist-worn device that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regimens. The Microsoft Band, as shown on the company's ...
The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 1.2 per cent in September 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 0.1 per cent in August 2014. In seasonally adjusted terms the largest contributor to ...
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Net income at NYSE-listed UniFirst Corp, a supplier of workplace uniforms and protective clothing slipped 5.5% year-on-year in the fourth fiscal quarter ending August 31, 2014. Net income for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2014 reached ...
The exports of garments and clothing accessories from India increased by 17.6 percent in the first six months of the ongoing fiscal year 2014-15 to touch US$ 8.3 billion, over the same period of the previous fiscal year, according to the ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) and the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles and Apparel (CCCT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will facilitate exchange of trade and ...
Retail sales volumes continued to grow in the year to October, with another strong rise expected in the month ahead, according to the CBI. The CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey of 124 firms showed a third successive ...
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As the Ebola spread to Europe and US, fears are continuing to mount over the virus outbreak. A Chinese factory owned by America protective clothing maker Lakeland Industries, is working day and night to help fight aganist Eloba by ...
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Morito Co., Ltd, a marketer of apparel fasteners said it has acquired Scovill Fasteners, which too is a producer of a diverse range of high-performance fasteners for various apparel and industrial markets. Founded in 1908, Morito is based ...
Having established its position in value-for-money apparel segment, Snapdeal.com will now offer premium designer wear, to its consumers through the launch of its ‘The Designer Studio’. Snapdeal has launched this new initiative ...
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After the inclusion of Zimmermann and Dion Lee, Michael Lo Sordo is the latest Aussie fashion label to be added to the e-commerce destination Net-a-Porter’s vast designer line-up. The brand, which showcases regularly at the ...
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Diverse natural conditions on the vast Tibetan Plateau have produced a clothing culture that goes back over millennia. There are three main types of garment – that worn by herdsmen, farmers and aristocrats -- which define occupation ...
The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
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On the first day of October 1949, 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians gathered at Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing and joined the founding ceremony of the New China. Chairman Mao read out the public announcement of the Central ...
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The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...