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He and Paul Watson, 34, set their sights on shirtmaking when Lehman Brothers collapsed the day after their graduation from the University of Oxford’s business school and their potential jobs in finance evaporated.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2014

Gantner has been losing money for more than a decade, and its owner, shirtmaking C. F. Hathaway Co., had net loss of $1.2 million in year ended Feb. 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many things have been written about shirtmaking; but here perhaps is the saddest thing of all, not written anywhere till now, that I know of.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

A band of women workers were prepared to associate for the mutual benefit of the operatives in the shirtmaking and clothing trades.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

But even those which, like tailoring, shirtmaking, shoemaking, furniture and upholstery, would seem less subject to periodic or purely capricious changes, are liable in fact to grave and frequent fluctuations of the market.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)