But...

That company had a side zipper business just on the side, and so the founder of that company that ended up going under, he really liked Tadao Yoshida.

He was hungry, working really hard, and he ended up saying, "Look, just take the zippers and see if you can make something of it."

In the 1990s, a lot of denim was still being produced in the American South.

We like had a pipeline shipping out every single day to these jeans manufacturers in Macon.

Growing, growing, growing, but where it stops is right around 2000 and 2001.

Brands were shifting overseas.

And the next slide I'm gonna show you, Elyse, is from 2006.