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mark

Claim is that only 2% of all clothing sold in the US is made here.

https://www.allamericanclothing.com/

Giving them a try. I ordered up a pair a jeans, a T, a Polo, and some socks.

taiwan_girl

@mark said in 2%?:

Claim is that only 2% of all clothing sold in the US is made here.

I believe that this is true.

People like to buy from their home country, but I think people like paying less for things even more.

jon-nyc

Yeah I believe it.

Jolly

Look at the textile and clothing manufacturing businesses in the South. That completely died off in my lifetime.

jon-nyc

There was once a garment district in NYC.

Well, there still is, but it used to be a main center of garment manufacturing in the US. Perhaps the main center at one point. Now it's just an appendage of Chelsea where the Fashion Institute of Technology is and some designers.

Doctor Phibes

Where I grew up you could hardly move without coming across an out-of-commission cotton mill. A lot of them are still there, they're generally used as warehouses and offices - one big one was turned into a hypermarket. Apparently, there were 60 mills operating in the fairly small town in the 1920's. - population now is about 100,000.

taiwan_girl

Right after the World War 2, some of the clothes making moved to Japan.

Then Japan got too expensive, so it moved to Taiwan

Then Taiwan got too expensive, so it moved to mainland China

Then mainland China got too expensive, so it moved to Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.

Soon, those will become too expensive, so they will look for another cheap country

xenon

I for one love how clothes have been getting significantly cheaper over my life so far.

LuFins Dad

@taiwan_girl said in 2%?:

Right after the World War 2, some of the clothes making moved to Japan.

Then Japan got too expensive, so it moved to Taiwan

Then Taiwan got too expensive, so it moved to mainland China

Then mainland China got too expensive, so it moved to Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.

Soon, those will become too expensive, so they will look for another cheap country

After 4 years of Biden/Harris, the US should be well positioned to take over cheap manufacturing from 3rd world countries... Okay, maybe 8 years.

taiwan_girl

@LuFins-Dad Well, President Trump couldn’t bring back manufacturing. I guess it is up to Vice President Biden to do so!