DELTA WOODSIDE INDUSTRIES INC /SC/
FIRST AMENDMENT TO DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
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                                                                  EXHIBIT 10.1.1


                                 FIRST AMENDMENT

         This First  Amendment  is made and  entered  into as of the 23rd day of
December,  2003 by Delta Woodside Industries,  Inc., Delta Mills, Inc. and Delta
Mills Marketing, Inc.

         The Delta Woodside Group  Deferred  Compensation  Plan for Key Managers
Amended and Restated  Effective June 30, 2000 (the "Plan") is amended as follows
(capitalized  terms  that are  undefined  shall be  defined  as set forth in the
Plan):

         1.       Section  5.1(a) of the Plan is amended to provide that payment
                  of benefits upon a Participant's  Retirement or Termination of
                  Service on account of  Disability  or death  shall be made (in
                  the case of Lump Sum Account  benefits) or  commenced  (in the
                  case  of  Installment  Account  or  Level-Payment  Installment
                  Account  benefits)  as soon as  reasonably  practicable  after
                  Retirement or  Termination of Service on account of Disability
                  or death,  as the case may be,  rather than on the January 1st
                  following such event.

         2.       Section 5.1(b) of the Plan is amended to provide that payments
                  made in accordance  with the first paragraph of Section 5.1(b)
                  shall  be made as soon  as  reasonably  practicable  following
                  Termination of Service,  rather than on the following  January
                  1st,  and  to  replace   "preceding  such  January  1st"  with
                  "preceding the date of payment" at the end of such paragraph.

       Executed as of the date first set forth above.

       DELTA WOODSIDE INDUSTRIES, INC.          DELTA MILLS, INC.

       By:   /s/ W.H. Hardman, Jr.              By:  /s/ W.H. Hardman, Jr.
       --------------------------------             --------------------------
       Name:  W.H. Hardman, Jr.                 Name:   W.H. Hardman, Jr.
       Title: CFO                               Title:  CFO


       DELTA MILLS MARKETING, INC.

       By:    /s/ W.H. Hardman, Jr.
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       Name:  W.H. Hardman, Jr.
       Title: CFO






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