Article: Faithful buyers Clerical garb maker sees little downturn

Town of Brookfield -- Whether it's Holy Week or not, they don't curse much, if at all, at Gaspard Inc. When you're stitching priestly vestments, that would hardly do. [X] "No, we don't swear," Vice President Jo Ann Gaspard said as she showed a visitor around a little factory that produces carefully cut, richly embroidered religious robes worn by ministers from St. Francis to Singapore. "We really don't." [X] What they do is turn out a dizzying array of chasubles, albs, copes, dalmatics, surplices -- you know what these things are, right? -- and the other ecclesiastical garments that have been anchored in many Christian traditions for hundreds of years. Only a handful of U.S. companies ...

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