Garment industry

Louise Story tells us about Tide-branded dry cleaners will soon be popping up, right next door to your neighborhood mom and pop cleaners…and why the notion of a national dry cleaning chain has never taken off before.

Briana Blasko spent five years traveling in India and documenting dancers and their costumes. The result is a series of stunning photos.

No one had quantified how much carcinogens linger in people’s clothes after they get back from the dry cleaner’s, until a high school student started asking questions.

Now that Liberia’s 14 year civil war is over, a fair-trade clothing factory is growing in the country’s capital Monrovia.

The Soviet Union was a bureaucratic nightmare. Even the smallest task involved piles of paperwork and forms to fill out. Even now in modern-day Russia, that’s still the case if you want to get clothes dry cleaned.