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  2. Bleacher - Wikipedia

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    Most smaller bleachers are frame-type bleachers and most larger bleachers are I-Beam bleachers. Bleachers range in size from small, modular, aluminum stands that can be moved around soccer or hockey fields to large permanent structures that flank each side of an American football field. Some bleachers have locker rooms underneath them.

  3. Textile bleaching - Wikipedia

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    They have their natural color, odor and impurities that are not suited to clothing materials. Not only the natural impurities will remain in the greige material, but also the add-ons that were made during its cultivation, growth and manufacture in the form of pesticides , fungicides , worm killers , sizes , lubricants , etc.

  4. Bleachfield - Wikipedia

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    Bleekveld in een dorp (Bleachfield in a village), circa 1650 (Jan Brueghel the Younger). A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. [1]

  5. Clothing terminology - Wikipedia

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    Its drab design and uniformity was a reaction to pre-Revolution class distinctions of clothes, with elites dressing in elaborate silks, while poor laborers wore very rough clothes. The Nehru jacket is a uniform jacket without lapels or collars, popularized by Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of independent India.

  6. Sportswear (fashion) - Wikipedia

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    Woman wearing a "sport suit," American, June 1920. Sportswear originally described interchangeable separates, as here. Signed "Evans, LA" Sportswear is an American fashion term originally used to describe separates, but which since the 1930s has come to be applied to day and evening fashions of varying degrees of formality that demonstrate a specific relaxed approach to their design, while ...

  7. Duck Head - Wikipedia

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    Duck Head is a brand name for clothing and shoes in the United States. First registered as a trademark in the late 19th century, the name has been used by several different manufacturers and retailers of apparel, primarily in the southern United States. Duck Head apparel had a period of great popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s.

  8. Fashion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It has some unique regional clothing styles, such as western wear. Blue jeans were popularized as work clothes in the 1850s by Levi Strauss, an American merchant of German origin in San Francisco, and were adopted by many American teenagers a century later. They are now widely worn on every continent by people of all ages and social classes.

  9. Carhartt - Wikipedia

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    Carhartt offers a "Union-Made in USA" line of workwear through its retailers. The company has four factories in the United States. The firm also makes an effort to use domestic suppliers: in 2015, Carhartt purchased 19.5 million pounds of cotton from Georgia, as well as 32 million buttons and 1 million drawcords, both made in Kentucky. [6]