1.   I recouped the payment by making garment for friends and some of the girls in the office.

2.   The garments were made using child labour.

3.   Cynthia Steffe made garments from a cellophane-like fabric created from silk and polymide.

4.   Each sample garment is made by a single seamstress, but the final products are created by contractors who often use an assembly-line process.

5.   Finding a conventional hemline or straight seam is a challenge, as is finding a garment made entirely of a single type of fabric in a single color.

6.   Fleece garments are increasingly made of old soda bottles.

7.   Never make a garment with just one piece of cloth.

8.   One of the most contentious issues is whether an American importer knows that the garments have been made in China and not Hong Kong.

9.   The company makes garments for clothing lines including Bill Blass and Generra.

10.   The garments were made of American Legend mink by Korean, Hong Kong and local manufacturers.