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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn't we want to be a sustainable country? Why wouldn't we want to be able to provide for ourselves? Do you think the world experiences less pollution just because manufacturing is in another part of the world?[/quote]

We are not the most innovative. So we can't get the best made items b/c we are forced to buy stuff from the US? Do you travel? Our stuff sucks.[/quote]

Yes, after we started importing cheap clothes. We had better quality once upon a time and not so long ago. [/quote]

Japan bought up the machines that used to make high quality denim in the USA, and those jeans cost 150-300 but last decades [/quote]

This really isn't true. Japan bought a specific type of narrow denim looms that has a niche appeal. Denim that will last just as long, and which is more practical for modern manufacturing is readily available. However, Levy's makes a better profit selling jeans that don't last decades, regardless of where they are sewn.

Sewn products produced in the US are not better quality today, and they weren't better quality fifty years ago. Companies at the higher end have a much higher error rate from domestic factories. The most successful factories focus on doing the most basic designs even in very basic product categories. E.g. t-shirt/hoodie blanks with minimal seams.

Vintage pieces sewn in the US have a lot of cost cutting measures: long stitch lengths, lazy construction, careless cutting. Some of that would be fixed with current automation of cutting and patternmaking, but the US factories were not producing great product even way back when.

These were never good jobs, they are extremely low skill. No one needs to be able to sew a garment start to finish, just execute one small skill for an entire shift.[/quote]

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