Uniforms

At CityCenter’s 25,000-square-foot uniform distribution center on Dean Martin Drive, Jhane Barnes, a slight woman with squarish glasses and short hair, proudly shows off...

Hawaiian Airlines' Kao'e Kea (high-flying bird) pioneer DC-3 hostesses had one of their best annual reunions at Ala Moana Hotel last Saturday night. HAL's...

The International Oeko-Tex Association and Textile Insight will present “Sustainability: Impacting Policy and the Future of Apparel and Textiles”, the next installment in their...

United Airlines flight attendants, pilots and other personnel are getting new uniforms. They'll be created by star designer Cynthia Rowley, who spoke this week...

Classroom® School Uniforms, a leading national manufacturer of school uniforms has unveiled its 2010 line for public and private school students from pre-school to...

Memphis’ top cop says Memphis City Schools aren’t doing enough to make sure people won’t confuse school security guards with Memphis police officers. The...

Recently, I saw the 2009 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—a yearly event that is presented to the public. In just two days, over 120,000 performers filled the streets for this fabulous presentation. There were huge varieties of apparel, but with hundreds of individuals at a time wearing the exact same thing—legions of people moving to the rhythm of the music. They adorned floats, the streets, and the city, in an unprecedented salute to the samba. Yet, aside from the bright colors and the incredibly varied fabrications, it was no different than a military parade. I thought to myself, are these uniforms or costumes? What's the difference between the two? Is it the material, the quantity, the purpose, the design? Is it that one is worn by choice and another by assignment? Perhaps it is the length of time that an outfit is worn. What makes one a costume and the other a uniform?

At Disneyland—the closest the Americans could come to the Brazilian pageant—there are both costumes and uniforms. The special characters such as the Goofies or the Snow Whites (yes, there are many of each, as it's a big park and different people wear the ensembles on various days at rotating times and in different sizes) are made in the Costume Shop—marvelous creations with or without giant feathers (Big Birds) or shapes (the Seven Dwarfs) and masks (Captain Hooks). The colorful and uniquely designed shirts and pants for the waiters and waitresses of Tomorrow Land, or Epcot, or the dresses worn by the Dance Hall girls in the saloon at Frontier Land, are kept in the Costume Warehouse—decorative items by the bushel, especially designed with fabrics solely woven and dyed for Disney. But these are referred to as uniforms, not costumes. Is it the quantity? Is it that costumes are saved for the proper nouns, such as the Prince Charmings or Belles, but uniforms are reserved for this usher or that waitress, worn by the hundreds?

Hawaiian Airlines is changing the color palette of its uniforms in celebration of the company's 80th anniversary on Nov. 11.Azure — representing the color...

With CityCenter’s first opening date just a month away, thousands are gearing up for new jobs at the property.CityCenter brought hundreds a step closer...

San Jose police are about to become the first in the nation to have HD cameras integrated with their uniforms.The video of the arrest...