Anyone know if this is true in the Los Angeles garment district as
well? I haven't been there since before 9/11. It's gotten very
difficult for us theatrical costume designers to find the fabrics we
need anymore for our productions.
Sylrog
On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:52 AM, monica spence wrote:
The remaining downtown stores -- what few they are -- are around West
Broadway.
The 9/11 attacks have been devastating to the garment industry. Today,
most
of the industry is off-shore (China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia--- you
know, the garden spots of the world where they employ child and slave
labor
and pay 38 cents a day... But I digress.)
The fabric stores were hardest hit because so few people sew now, and
whatever suppliers they had in the US textile the industry has dries
up.
There are a few nice stores on 39th over by 8th ave. But they are very
expensive.
Monica
Works in Manhatten teaching fashion
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Penny wrote:
What are some of the names of the main streets in NYC fashion
district? I
am working on a 1905 jobber's pocket manual that lists various fashion
related
businesses, retailers, manufacturers, and mills east of the
Mississippi
River. I am just wondering if the streets list for businesses, etc. is
what is
called the fashion district today. Some of the locations are 300-500
blocks
of Broadway, Worth St., Green St., Leonard St. and White St.
These are not in the current Garment District. Some of these areas
did
still have fabric stores as late as 2001 (stopped working downtown
after the
attacks and I haven't been back). The Garment District is Westside
upper
30's
from Broadway over to 8th/9th Avenues. The Broadway addresses would
be
around
1400.
Nancy
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