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As soon as Zara pulls the trigger on a new design, the gray goods are sent to the finishing shops and turned into products ready to ship – a textbook example of applying “just in time” manufacturing to fashion.

The automated factories constantly create unfinished “gray goods.”

Now, with 120 million yards of gray goods on its hands, U.S.C.C. has had to turn to U.S. textile mills for help.

Gray goods prices in New York have risen from 5.4� to 9.3� per yard since last December.

Above all, a comfortable dress of some gray goods, which fitted me pretty well.