The Portland company makes school uniforms for 2,500 private and Catholic schools throughout the U.S. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Dennis Uniform.) . Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Tom Shipley ...

That decade saw the textile “explode” in popularity, she explained in a phone interview, brought to market by major Catholic school uniform suppliers at the time, including Bendinger Brothers ...

So, the 100-year-old company, which makes uniforms for 2,500 private schools across the country including hundreds of Catholic schools, put its school uniform production on hold for a few weeks to ...