You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.
With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
While mail sorters and carpenters are male-dominated, for example, office workers and sewing machine operators are female-dominated occupations.
Enter Compaq Computer, then a small Texas maker of sewing- machine-size portable computers.
The Bugatti is an absolutely phenomenal sports car that feels like a 95-octane sewing machine when you drive it around town.
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Shin learned in late December that on Jan. 2, his crew of sewing-machine repairmen and some of the seamstresses would be escorted to a mountain ridge on the eastern edge of the camp.
Baker shows me the sewing floor - there are four women sitting in front of specialized sewing machine.
Sony even admits that the Double Density CD-ROM is a product of the moment that will become about as useful a piece of computer hardware as grandma's sewing machine as soon as read-write capable DVDs are widely available.
From that point on the government seemed to just want to get rid of the models, moving them into storage, sending some back to their owners and allowing the Smithsonian to take some important ones--Isaac Singer's sewing machine, for example, and Samuel Colt's revolver.
Writing of the Japanese comfort with robots, she allows that human-machine living may be different in a society where even sewing needles are buried.
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