*Meanwhile, in the rapidly globalizing rag trade

*American retailers desperate to foist their inferior goods on the British!
Pick up your skirts and run for the trenches!

http://www.britishdesigninnovation.or...

Inspire or die! (((The British slogan in the 1950s was "Export or Die," and, as
Brian Aldiss once pointed out, "we died.")))

Ten years ago the UK fashion retail market changed out of all recognition, with the arrival of Zara and Mango and the growth of H&M.

The impact wasn’t simply the arr