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Article: Sewing up a booming business ; Making clothes for US sailors
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2008
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CITY WEEKLY / EAST BOSTON
East Boston is known for Suffolk Downs, Logan Airport, and
Italian restaurants.
Apparel manufacturing? Not so much.
Most folks have no clue that Eastie is home to one of the
nation's biggest makers of authentic Navy peacoats, Sterlingwear of
Boston Inc. The family-owned company has been in business since the
1960s, producing coats, dress jackets, and uniforms for the US
military, as well as a fashion line of peacoats for civilian
customers. Every article of Sterlingwear clothing is assembled in
East Boston and bears the label "Made in the USA."
The walls in the main lobby of Sterlingwear's corporate offices
and factory on Route 1A, less than a half-mile away from ...
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