A NRA label placed in the seam of a garment signifies it's date of creation to be within the two year time period of 1933 and 1935.

The NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (NIRA), a U.S. law enacted by Congress in June 1933; was one of the measures by which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression.

  To ensure orderly and fair competition in business, the act authorized the president to set up a National Recovery Administration (NRA) Drafting a set of codes for each of more than 500 industries, including garment making.  The act suspended relevant antitrust regulations, and set codes of industrial conduct. NRA director Hugh Johnson tried to gain corporate endorsement by launching a veritable crusade, symbolized by a blue eagle and boosted by parades and patriotic propaganda. These early agreements, which were supposed to attest to a restored confidence in the economy, contained a maximum hour work day and minimum wage provisions.

 From the beginning, the NRA reflected divergent goals and suffered from widespread criticism. The businessmen who dominated the code drafting wanted guaranteed profits, insisting on security for renewed investment and future production. Congressional critics insisted upon continued open pricing and saw the NRA codes as a necessary means of making it fair and orderly. A few intellectuals wanted a more extensive government role in the form of central economic planning. Finally, unhappy labor union representatives fought with small success for the collective bargaining promised by the NIRA. The codes did little to help recovery; and by raising prices, they may have enabled economic woes. Thus, in 1935, when the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the codes as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power, the NRA was abandoned.

A NRA label placed in the seam of a garment signifies it's date of creation to be within the two year time period of 1933 and 1935. It does not now, NOR EVER, signify representation of the national rifle association.