Most manufacturers of ready-made-clothes are still finding it difficult to ensure proper fit for their products, despite the new body measurement tables on the basis of the German serial measurement campaign SizeGERMANY and the resulting 3D ...
In April, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.4 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.4 percent both in cities and in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.0 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 percent. The ...
Tags: Consumer Prices, food
Perhaps it's the growing network of bike paths, trails and green lanes. Or Chicagoans coming to the realization that it takes longer to drive somewhere than to bike. But retailers we visited on day two of the Dealer Tour report a growing ...
Tags: bike paths, bike
There is now a way to differentiate between designer clothing and knockoffs. Chalmers researcher Christian Müller has produced a thread with unique optical properties, which can be used to create invisible patterns in fabrics that are ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the release of “Imports Work for America,” a study by Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, that measures the comprehensive net effect of imports on the U.S. economy. In ...
Clothing mainly featuring the colour red or bright colours is commonly worn throughout the Chinese New Year because it was once believed that red could scare away evil spirits and bad fortune. In addition, people typically wear new clothes ...
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"A silkworm spins all its silk till its death and a candle won't stop its tears until it is fully burnt." This Tang poem accurately describes the property of the silkworm. Despite technological development, a silkworm can only produce a ...
Water is such a thing without which life cannot be imagined. It is needed for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes. Many a times we do not know about the impurities present in the water that is being consumed. Such a thing can become a ...
Tags: Purify Water, Chlorinators
Fashion lovers, who cannot help gaping or drooling over the covetable wardrobe pieces of the US First Lady Michelle Obama, will now be able to imitate each and every look of hers, thanks to a new app from the Apples iTunes store. ...
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With the rapidly increasing competition from e-commerce, several clothing retailers have started adopting high-end technologies, including easy-to-use apps with self-control facilities, to attract the customers and to reduce the cost of the ...
Tags: Virtual Dressing Room, Textile
GE has added two new assembly lines to its plant in Appliance Park and for the first time will manufacture front-loading washing machines and their matching dryers in the U.S. The folks in Louisville, Kentucky are happy because the move ...
Tags: Dryer, Consumer Electronics
A new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reflects a 9-percent increase in motorcycle deaths in 2012 to about 5,000 fatalities for the year. That marks the 14th year out of 15 that deaths have risen. The GHSA report ...
Tags: Motorcycle, Transportation
Ceramics is widely used in our everyday lives, from food, clothes, housing, travel, education, music, art... and so on. Below we have provided brief description of its use with "food, clothes, housing and travel". Ceramics is ...
Tags: Ceramics, Porcelain, Construction
Apricot Collection, the new online clothing store, is pleased to support the amazingly talented upcoming Toronto-based designer, Tetiana Kachurak. While on the hunt for finding unique, different pieces to add to her new online ...
Tags: Tetiana Kachurak Line, Apparel
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed publication of the 2013 Special 301 Report by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The Special 301 Report is an annual assessment of global intellectual property ...