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                                                                 EXHIBIT 10.3


                                     Allonge

         The undersigned, Tri-Star Hosiery Mills, Inc., a North Carolina
corporation ("THM") and a wholly owned subsidiary of Ridgeview, Inc., a North
Carolina corporation, hereby executes and delivers this allonge to Amended,
Restated and Consolidated Term Note dated December 20, 1996, payable to the
order of NATIONSBANK, N.A., formerly known as NationsBank, N.A. (South) (the
"Lender"), in the original principal amount of $4,969,659.00 as evidence of
THM's joint and several liability thereon under and pursuant to the Amended and
Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated as of December 20, 1996, as amended,
to which Ridgeview, Inc., Seneca Knitting Mills Corporation, Tri-Star Hosiery
Mills, Inc. and the Lender are parties, all as of this ___ day of July, 1998.


                                             TRI-STAR HOSIERY MILLS, INC.


                                             By: ____________________________
[Corporate Seal]                                 Hugh R. Gaither
                                                 President

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