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Yellow tee-shirt labels and other garment labels - what do they mean? What can you learn?

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  Sometimes the label is merely the name of the company, other times the label carries two pieces of information, the company name and the 'label' or brand. For example, in effect, 'Holding Company A', plus either 'Ourcheaprange', or 'Ourexpensiverange'.   A company can have different brandnames indicating: 'Womensclothes', or 'Kiddieclothes'. Holding Company A might buy up Company B. At this point the labels all carry the company name, Company A, followed by one or more styles of clothes from company A, or one of the styles from company B.  I find it fun to look up the names and learn the convoluted history of the company and a particular brand. What do tee -shirt labels tell you? Sometimes you draw a blank, nothing at all. Has the company gone out of business or changed its name? Othere times, you get too many results. Labels USC Atlan Motifs Downtown Downtown is an Americanism. Generally means what British people would call the city ce...