Garmentos

He wasn't at liberty to discuss the next steps just yet, but he did note that although only 5% of the clothing Americans buy is made in the USA, 1.3 million square feet of the Garment Center -- about 1/6 of the commercially zoned area, are still occupied by manufacturers, wholesalers, suppliers, and designers -- that rare breed of New Yorker we affectionately know as garmentos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It turns out that the specialty shop has been around since the same era that brought all those Jewish garmentos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The area, once full of the city ' s top fashion houses and garmentos who sewed buttons and stitched patterns for the city ' s retail shops, has been shrinking for decades. ❋ Shelly Banjo (2010)

COOPER (voice-over): She's the quintessential fashionista, the goddess of the garmentos. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Some hipsters became a baby merchant class of scavenger-chic garmentos, just like the hippies before them, who trafficked in the kitschy Victoriana of their grandmothers. ❋ By CINTRA WILSON (2011)

Entourage, comes How to Make It in America, a new comedy starring Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk about a pair of enterprising 20-something garmentos hustling through New York City's fashion scene determined to achieve the American dream. ❋ Lacey Rose (2010)

Everybody and his uncle - government officials, bankers, economists and garmentos - are all locked in the latest China debate. ❋ Unknown (2010)