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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4557436, member: 2844"]Hugo Boss was founded by German fashion designer Hugo Ferdinand Boss, Metzingen 1885-1948. Hence the name Hugo Boss.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The company also made uniforms for the SS, SA and Wehrmacht, using wartime slave labour. After the war Hugo Boss lost his right to vote in W. Germany. The company paid a high fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bet my father didn't know about this dark side, he always wore Hugo Boss coats.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As Debora said, many Western manufacturers outsourced manufacturing to Eastern Europe (leaving Western European workers out of a job).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4557436, member: 2844"]Hugo Boss was founded by German fashion designer Hugo Ferdinand Boss, Metzingen 1885-1948. Hence the name Hugo Boss.;) The company also made uniforms for the SS, SA and Wehrmacht, using wartime slave labour. After the war Hugo Boss lost his right to vote in W. Germany. The company paid a high fine. I bet my father didn't know about this dark side, he always wore Hugo Boss coats.:oops: As Debora said, many Western manufacturers outsourced manufacturing to Eastern Europe (leaving Western European workers out of a job).[/QUOTE]
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