Same thing with the sewingKind of work people...
Same thing with the sewingKind of work people don't want to do anymoreYou |s can't just take a sewer who knows how to run a traditional sewing Vmachine, or knows how to sew dresses, and start her here on glovesShe has to go through a three- or four-month training process, has u to have finger dexterity, has to have patience, and it's six months | before she's proficient and reaches even eighty percent efficiency| Glove sewing is a tremendously complicated procedureIf you h want to make a better glove, you have to spend money and train ki workersTakes a lot of hard work and attention, all the twists and turns where the finger crotches are sewn--it's very hardIn the days when my father first opened a glove shop, the people were in it for life--Harry's the last of themThis cutting room is one of the last in this hemisphereOur production is still gucci backpacks always fullWe still have people here who know what they're doingNobody cuts gloves this way anymore, not in this country, where hardly anybody's left to i f cut them, and not anywhere else either, except maybe in a little \ I family-run shop in Naples or GrenobleThese were people, the % people who worked here, who were in it for lifeThey were born into the glove industry and they died in the glove industryToday we're constantly retraining peopleToday our economy is such that people take a job here and if something comes along for another fifty cents an hour, they're gone
She wrote all this down "When I first came into the business and my father sent me up here to learn how to cut, all I did was stand right here at the cutting ' table and watch this guyI learned this business in the old-fash-* ioned wayMy father started me literally sweeping the balenciaga handbags motorcycle floorsWent through every single department, getting a feel for each operation and why it was being doneFrom Harry I learned how to cut a gloveI wouldn't say I was a proficient glove | 1 11 cutterIf I cut two, three pairs a day it was a lot, but I learned the rudimentary principles--right, Harry? A demanding teacher, this fellowWhen he shows you how to do something, he goes all the wayLearning from Harry almost made me yearn for my old manFirst day I came up here Harry set me straight--he told me that down where he lived boys would come to his door and say, 'Could you teach me to be a glove cutter?' and he would tell them, 'You've got to pay me fifteen thousand first, because that's how much time and leather you're going to destroy till you get to the point where you can make the minimum wage' I watched him for a full two months before he let me fendi b bag anywhere near a hideAn average table cutter will cut three, three and a half dozen a dayA good, fast table cutter will cut five dozen a dayHarry was cutting five and a half dozen a day'You think I'm good?' he told me'You should have seen my dad' Then he told me about his father and the tall man from Barnum and BaileyRemember, Harry?" Harry nodded"When the Barnum and Bailey circus came to Newarkthis is 1917, 1918?" Harry nodded again without stopping his work"Well, they came to town and they had a tall man, approaching nine feet or so, and Harry's father saw him one day in the street, walking along the street, at Broad and Market, and he got so excited he ran over to the tall man and he took his shoelace off his own shoe, measured the guy's hand right out there on the street, and he went home and made up a perfect size-seventeen pair of glovesHarry's chloe black father cut it and his mom sewed it, and they went over to the circus and gave the gloves to the tall man, and the whole family got free seats, and a big story about Harry's dad ran in the Newark News the next day
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"Wonderful," the girl said, laughing"Your father must have been very skilled
"Couldn't speak a word of English," Harry told her "He couldn't? Well, that just goes to show, you don't have to know English," she said, "to cut a perfect pair of gloves for a man nine feet tall
Harry didn't laugh but the Swede did, laughed and put his arm around herWe're going to make her a dress glove, size fourBlack or brown, honey?"
"Brown?"
From a wrapped-up bundle of hides dampening beside Harry, he picked one out in a pale shade of brown"This is a tough color to get," the Swede louis vuitton duffle bag told
