Texas Tech University

Coveralls for all: What Halliburton learned from Rosie the Riveter

San Antonio Express News

October 3, 2018

San Antonio Express News - Maysarah Mikail, a field engineer for the Houston oilfield services company Halliburton, spent the summer in the Permian Basin, working 12-hour days in temperatures of up to 120 degrees. But it wasn’t just the searing West Texas heat that made her uncomfortable in her heavy, flame-retardant coveralls.

Sketch of a Halliburton coverall as being designed at Texas Tech University's Apparel and Manufacturing Design Department included in story.

 

Read the whole story here.