Why 50,000 iconic French shirts, intended for America, sit in storage

Why 50,000 iconic French shirts, intended for America, sit in storage

SAINT-JAMES, France — As fabric spooled out of a bank of knitting machines in a flare of blue-and-white stripes, workers at the Saint James clothing factory in France’s Normandy region stacked them into piles and cut along patterns to make the company’s iconic Breton sailor’s shirt, worn by celebrities and adored by fans worldwide. Luc Lesénécal, the company’s CEO, surveyed an enormous workroom splashed with a rainbow of yarns. Seamstresses had …