needle trades

American  

plural noun

1. the occupations and organizations involved in the manufacture of clothing.

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Etymology

Origin of needle trades

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union.

From Time Magazine Archive

Supreme Court Justice, who in his early days was a kind of compromising needle trades Henry Clay.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the most informative sections of Tailor's Progress describes in great detail the connections between the needle trades and the underworld.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades.

From Time Magazine Archive

This work afforded the only instance of an application of Scientific Management to the processes involved in the great needle trades and was, on that account, of special interest.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie