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With $9 billion in annual sales in 2011, [11] New York City is the United States' top "global fashion city." [12] The core of the industry is Manhattan's Garment District, where the majority of the city's major fashion labels operate showrooms and execute the fashion process from design and production to wholesaling. No other city has a ...
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The identification of a "garment district" is relatively new in Los Angeles' history as a large city. In 1972 the Los Angeles Times defined the L.A. Garment District as being along Los Angeles Street from 3rd to 11th Street, an area that today straddles the border of Skid Row and the very northwest end of the current Fashion District.
According to Florida State College at Jacksonville, about 3.2 million enslaved Africans were in the United States by 1850, 1.8 million of which worked in cotton fields.
Fabric Row (Der Ferder, "the fourth", in Yiddish) [2] is a historic Jewish [3] textile and garment district located on South 4th Street in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia between Bainbridge Street and Catherine Street.
part of Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District; current tenant: EC Pigments LLC 15: Davis Mill No. 2: 1908: 661 Quequechan: Fall River Granite: 83000709: part of Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District 16: Davol Mill No. 1: 1871: 427 Plymouth Ave: Red Brick: Built in the Second Empire Style 17: Davol Mill No. 2: 1867: 427 Plymouth Ave: Red ...
The Kansas City Garment District is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the east of Quality Hill, across Broadway Boulevard. In the 1930s several large clothing manufacturers clustered here, making Kansas City's garment district second only to New York City's in size. Today, this heritage is commemorated by an oversize needle and ...
The city of New Bedford, Massachusetts once had about 70 textile mills, operated by 28 establishments with over 3.7 million spindles at its peak around 1920, and was among the leading cotton textile centers in the United States during the early 20th century. There are currently about 18 mills left in the city.