The garment manufacturers of Pakistan are pinning hope on the approval of the European Union’s Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP Plus) status to their country by the EU Commission at Brussels. According to the industry ...
Tags: Garment Makers, Garment, Apparel
Brazil and Mexico are forecast to lead the growth of the Peruvian apparel sector in 2013, and to an extent, this would assuage the fall in exports to the US, Pedro Gamio, president of the garment committee of Asociación de ...
Tags: Apparel Export, apparel sector, apparel
A suit is a set of garments made from the same cloth, usually consisting of at least a jacket and trousers. Lounge suits (also known as business suits when sober in colour and style), which originated in Britain as country wear, are the ...
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The purpose of a dance costume is to enhance the dancer’s body and the concept of the Choreographer (Dance Catalog 219). “Costumes are clothes and they are art. They make the invisible ideas visible” (Nadel 241). Dance ...
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A wedding dress or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. Color, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants. In Western cultures, brides ...
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Historically, Han Clothing has influenced many of its neighbouring cultural costumes, such as Japanese kimono, yukata,and the Vietnamese áo tứ thân. Elements of Hanfu have also been influenced by neighbouring cultural ...
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The SEZ Board of Approval (BoA), Government of India, has approved the request of Welspun Anjar SEZ Limited for denotification of the sector specific SEZ for Textiles & Garments at Anjar, Gujarat, notified over an area of 109.59 hectares. ...
The drawback committee’s constituted by government of India visited Tirupur to assess the incidents of Customs Duty, Excise Duty and Service Tax component on the export of readymade garments. Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman, Apparel Export ...
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Wichita, Kan.-based polymer and fiber producer Invista has acquired Greenville-based Ashburn Hill Corp. including its TECGEN® brands of flame-resistant (FR) apparel and its Angleton, Texas-based manufacturing operation. "Invista has ...
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The proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and India, negotiations for which are currently taking place, would boost textiles and garment trade between the two. Speaking to fibre2fashion, head of International ...
Textile workers of Nigeria want the Federal Government to inject more money for revival of the ailing textile units across the nation. Seeking higher funds, the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria ...
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With the theme “Dream, Believe, Achieve”, the third edition of InFashion kicked off on 20th March 2013 where the three day event brought together the entire textile, apparel and fashion community to exhibit, buy, and source and ...
Tags: fashion extravaganza, apparel, textile
Following on from the successful launch of the MF1 boardshort and on the eve of a global release of the high-class “Mick Fanning by Rip Curl” clothing range, Rip Curl’s Torquay design team have hooked up with Woolmark ...
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In April, AATCC will honor the US Marine Corps Systems Command and scientists at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, as recipients of the 2012 Henry E. Millson Award for Invention. The award is being ...
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthivel, has written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, on the issue of high cotton yarn prices prevailing in domestic market for export manufacturing. Dr. Sakthivel, in his ...
Tags: Yarn Prices, Yarn, Textiles