Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The woman who sewed 21 million sweatpants

From http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/20/news/mn-28906

February 20, 2002|JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | TIMES STAFF WRITER

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Some people climb mountains. Margaret Blankenship has sewn one--out of sweatpants, 21,565,440 pairs of them, to be exact.

Every single workday for the last 36 years, the bundles of fuzzy cotton kept coming and Blankenship kept stitching, making more sweatpants along the line at the VF Imagewear factory than anybody in company history.



Absolutely incredible. But it didn't stop them from closing the plant.

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