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Depending on the scale of production, manufacturers use different techniques to make garments, as this program shows. Viewers meet a "cool Britannia" tailor who constructs men's suits by hand as well as a designer using CAD technology to create sportswear-and both methods provide a custom fit. The video also goes inside a textiles factory to compare large-scale batch production with smaller-run job production, explaining the process of quality control employed for both. And although the textiles industry relies on low-cost labor, the video notes that consumer pressure has resulted in better working conditions at garment factories around the world.