Since modern machines can make cheaper embroidery products today, fewer people are buying handmade Shu embroidery products.

The hand-embroidered and stitched figures are made by women in Swaziland diagnosed with HIV and are supported by the NGO Dessine l'Espoir.

It has a small American flag hand-embroidered on the waistband. A subtle logo on the pocket is like a ghost, or phantom, of the brassy original logo.