1.   He started out as a contractor, hiring people to sew garments for a middleman who got the orders from a retailer.

2.   He set out as a contractor, hiring seamstresses to sew garments for a jobber who took orders from retail stores.

3.   Most were Thais who appear to have been recruited to cut and sew garments destined for major American department stores, Labor Department officials said.

4.   She still sketches the styles, makes the patterns, and sews many garments on her machine at home.

5.   That would be absurd, because, for one thing, Balenciaga worked in haute couture, often sewing a garment himself.

6.   There was no evidence that these retailers knew that their garments were sewn by workers at this compound or that they were aware of the conditions at the site.

7.   Thuong Tin is a village of embroiderers, where men and women expert in needlework have sewn garments for generations.

8.   What about the Haitian workers sewing garments for Wal-Mart?

9.   Fatama Bibi sews garments in her home in a shantytown in western India.