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Behind the seams: designing and manufacturing clothing in Australia

Australia, 1991
film

Not an expose on high fashion, but a look at how clothing is made in a modern mass production factory. The programme is intended to erase any pre-conceived id..

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By design?

Australia, 1985
Similarity: 75%

Our clothes

Sweden, 1976
Similarity: 73%

Fabrications

Australia, 1974
Similarity: 73%

Fabric of change

Australia, 1988
Similarity: 73%

Fashions for Men

Australia, 1942
Similarity: 73%

Getting into jeans

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 72%

Made in Australia

Australia, 1959
Similarity: 71%

The Future makers

Australia, 1968
Similarity: 71%

Men in wool

Australia, 1959
Similarity: 70%

Making cotton clothing

United States, 1946
Similarity: 70%

Australian wool textile industry

Australia, 1956
Similarity: 70%

Australia at work

Australia, 1989
Similarity: 70%

Australian diary. No. 027

Australia, 1949
Similarity: 70%

A Lesson to us all

Australia, 1973
Similarity: 70%

[U.S. of A.]

Australia, 1976
Similarity: 69%

Song of the shirt

United Kingdom, 1979
Similarity: 69%

North China factory

Canada, 1980
Similarity: 69%

Fashion means business

United States, 1948
Similarity: 69%
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