By goldgrifin007 on Skatehive
My First Job: Silver Bloggers Prompt The New York City Seventh Avenue Garment District has been the center of fashion in the United States for generations. Historically, stores on New York's Fifth Avenue featured the latest styles because these stores would get their clothes directly from designers in the Garment District. It was at one of these stores that I worked in my first job. This sight (picture below), of someone pushing a hand truck loaded with fabric, was quite common in the Garment District. I didn't walk through the District when I went to work, but it was an adjoining neighborhood. Before she was married, my mother worked there as a seamstress and when I was growing up my aunt worked there as a pattern maker. New York City's Garment District was in my blood, but somehow those fashion genes skipped me. @agmoore The American friends I've met so far at Hive are men from Oregon, Wyoming, and Texas, but this was my first conversation with a woman from New York. Madam @agmoore i