Is Brexit a bust for this local bra business?
'I’ve got a nice business that was running along quite smoothly and suddenly everything has been derailed.'
| Jan 5 | 8 | 1 |
In the town of Liepāja, on the shores of the Baltic Sea in Latvia, the population is hard at work making lingerie.
It’s a little-known fact, but Latvia is the bra and knicker capital of the world, an industry that grew up back in the days of the USSR, when the Soviet fleet was anchored off-shore. The fleet brought women with them — some working for the n…