On the lower end of skills and pay, apparel employment shriveled as Southern California garment makers focused on fashion and small quantities, eliminating tens of thousands of manual labor jobs.

The garment’s austere black and silver palette projects a demure yet powerful mix of luxury and restraint.

She told the Commons last month the bill needed "sufficient scrutiny to stitch together a complete garment out of what is presently threads and patches" that could be challenged in court.

During the gold rush, most miners didn’t find fortunes, but the merchants — people selling pans, or garment makers such as Levi Strauss and his copper-rivet blue jeans — did.

The needles likely were used to create garments from the animals' furs to keep the early foragers warm in what was a cool climate.