What the Workers Produce
All sorts of wearing apparel, from children’s rompers to opera cloaks, make up the product of these industries, which are naturally divided into two classes—those making men’s garments and those making women’s. The two groups of industries are sharply differentiated, and in each group processes are highly specialized.
Men’s clothes are made in three separate types of shops—the coat shop, the pants shop, and the vest shop.
Women’s garment trades fall generally into the following groups:
(1) Custom tailoring.
(2) Manufacture of cloaks, suits, and skirts.
(3) Manufacture of dresses and waists.
(4) Manufacture of misses’ and children’s dresses.
(5) Manufacture of muslin underwear.
(6) Manufacture of house dresses, kimonos, etc.