Few people give much thought to where what they wear beneath their clothes really comes from, and so it was for Elizabeth Gowing, until a recent visit to an underwear factory run by women in northern Albania. Bras slither from a table, a heap of knickers are piled in a corner. Am I in a brothel? A teenager's bedroom? When I came to Albania I was warned there was an underworld I might all too easil
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