Her father is the owner of Gigi of Carolina, a sweater manufacturer in Cherryville, N.C.

Barry Friedman, vice president of Aviv Knitwear in Queens, a sweater manufacturer that pays piecework rates, said paychecks often dropped sharply when workers become pregnant.

That's how Michael Kors describes his fall cashmere collection for Lyle & Scott, the Scottish sweater manufacturer.

It had been left behind by a sweater manufacturer whose business unraveled.

She is an account executive at 525 Made in America, a sweater manufacturer in New York.

Her mother, Bonnie Case, owns Case & Company, a women's fashion and sweater manufacturer in New York.

Mr. Newman, 60, a retired sweater manufacturer, found his Acura in the lot, but two of his friends were not so lucky.

Mr. Cohen retired as the executive sales manager at Belford Knitwear, a sweater manufacturer for men and women in New York.

He had been a men's sweater manufacturer in New York for 27 years, and was "product oriented and had the head for the business end," Mrs. Ellsley said.

Her parents, Rada and Stan Rajkov of Garrison, N.Y., own S & R, a sweater manufacturer in Brooklyn.