Her father is the general counsel, secretary and a vice president at the Kayser-Roth Corporation, hosiery manufacturers in Greensboro.
The 34 tenants, employing about 300 people, include artists, cabinetmakers, hosiery manufacturers, meat spice manufacturers and a restaurant.
In neighbouring South Wigston Henry Bates was the leading hosiery manufacturer.
She said she had rejected a request for Hosiery Week from a hosiery manufacturers' association.
He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of a hosiery manufacturer.
Her father, who is retired, was an account executive in New York for Hanes, the hosiery manufacturer.
In the late 1980's it was bought by Tony Shogren, a hosiery manufacturer who lives on Long Island.
Her father is the chairman of Shogren Industries, a hosiery manufacturer in Concord, N.C.
His father was a Czech hosiery manufacturer who had moved to Carniola from Bohemia.
By 1895, there were 231 listed hosiery manufacturers in the county.