These Are The Souls That Try Men's Ties

[SifuPhil]

I've known a couple of ladies that used to work in garment factories here in the Northeast in the bad old days, but I never knew any men that worked in that capacity.

Here's a shot from a garment factory in New Jersey in 1936.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Interesting, my mother said she worked for awhile in a factory that made clothes for dolls. Funny, I hated dolls as a kid, and was actually afraid of them.

 

[SifuPhil]

Interesting, my mother said she worked for awhile in a factory that made clothes for dolls. Funny, I hated dolls as a kid, and was actually afraid of them.

Oh, now, what could be so scary about a doll?

 

[AprilT]

Thanks you have no idea how many of those types of dolls have given me nightmares over the years. There's a woman on one of the tv shows I watch that has eyes just like that, I kind of wish they'd rid the show of her character. Chills.

 

[Josiah]

I didn't realize that this was a problem. I guess there must be a word for it maybe mopophobia (1900-05; obsolete mop rag doll, baby)

 

[Meanderer]

You want a blue suit? ...Turn on the blue light!

 

[Pappy]

Interesting. In 1956, my wife worked for the Norwich shoe factory, which I believe made shoes for several major shoe companies. There was also a underware company that made long underware for the armed services.

 

[AprilT]

What's not to love about these dolls

 

[Meanderer]

Figures Talk!

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Denise1952]

Interesting, my mother said she worked for awhile in a factory that made clothes for dolls. Funny, I hated dolls as a kid, and was actually afraid of them.

I never liked dolls, creepy, and also clowns

 

[Denise1952]

Figures Talk!

How did women of those days handle a hotflash, you can't just throw that stuff on and off like we do now, layers ya know??

 

[Sunny]

There's even a name for fear of clowns: Coulrophobia .

 

[Denise1952]

I believe it Sunny. When I was a little girl I don't ever remembering one of them EVER being funny, just creepy, LOL!

 

[John C]

When I was growing up in a very small town, the richest man there was the owner of the hosiery mill. A lot of his workers lived in small "shotgun houses" which was fortunate for them because of the Great Depression. His factory provided multicolored remnants (free) from the hosiery production which we used to make potholders. He provided much of the support needed by the local churches and money to help the unfortunate. He was admired by the town's people. When he passed away in the middle 1930's almost everyone attended his funeral and the procession of cars to the cemetery stretched for miles.

 

[SifuPhil]

I think that's pretty rare, John, both to see that kind of kindness on the part of a factory owner and to see that sort of respect from the workers.

At least nowadays.

Here in Pennsylvania the workers were more often subjected to low wages, extremely long hours and the eventual disappearance of their jobs overseas. Hardly reasons to respect the owners ...

 

[Meanderer]

The Life Of A Garment

 

[Denise1952]

I'm just done shoppin at Walmart, bought this last week

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Denise1952]

Yeah, and how mothers want to dress their babies nowadays,