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Long Handles and the Red Label Line
Record #:
31111
Author(s):
Abstract:
One of the most obvious essential industries that are often overshadowed by electronics, steel and automobiles is the production of clothing. First organized as a corporation in 1903, the P.H. Hanes Knitting Company has been working to keep North Carolinians with the heavy union suit (known as the 'long-handles'). The company has been expanding and innovating since then, the brand name label being sold across the country by 1914. And in 1960 a new selling organization has marketed the Hanes Red Label mark of men's and children's socks.
Source:
We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 20 Issue 6, November 1962,
p108-109, 177, por