There's a fallacious mentality here. Not only are you paying for the production, you're paying for a higher quality. Quality over quantity. I'd rather have 2 pairs of well made selvedge jeans hand sewn and hand riveted than 6 pairs of shitty pants that will fall apart in a few months. These people care about their products, they care about their customers.
No - you can't. If you're Walmart people, you'll live in a Walmart world with Walmart wages. What a lousy place to exist - hardly the US that people envision it to be. Stop rewarding business for hollowing out American jobs.
The issue is not so much wages, or even NAFTA, it's burdensome over-regulation and litigation, i.e. - OSHA, Work Comp, trial lawyers, EPA, etc, etc, etc. It's crushing and death by 1000 cuts. Until that changes (and, with the last election that ain't happening soon), manufacturing will continue to follow the path of least resistance in foreign countries. Economics 101 folks.
How on earth can we fix the price differential? Jeans should not cost $100. When they cost $18, they are made in China...and that is about what jeans are worth (ok, sew some fancy stuff and double the price...). The cost of manufacturing is high, the price is high...the masses won't spend when it is overpriced. Nice that boutique places have excellent marketing and upscale clientele...but the majority of us are Walmart people. Can we get jeans made in the US for a reasonable price?
Awesome guys!! Good for you!
There's a fallacious mentality here. Not only are you paying for the production, you're paying for a higher quality. Quality over quantity. I'd rather have 2 pairs of well made selvedge jeans hand sewn and hand riveted than 6 pairs of shitty pants that will fall apart in a few months. These people care about their products, they care about their customers.
No - you can't. If you're Walmart people, you'll live in a Walmart world with Walmart wages. What a lousy place to exist - hardly the US that people envision it to be. Stop rewarding business for hollowing out American jobs.
The issue is not so much wages, or even NAFTA, it's burdensome over-regulation and litigation, i.e. - OSHA, Work Comp, trial lawyers, EPA, etc, etc, etc. It's crushing and death by 1000 cuts. Until that changes (and, with the last election that ain't happening soon), manufacturing will continue to follow the path of least resistance in foreign countries. Economics 101 folks.
Yes BLAME NAFTA!!!
How on earth can we fix the price differential? Jeans should not cost $100. When they cost $18, they are made in China...and that is about what jeans are worth (ok, sew some fancy stuff and double the price...). The cost of manufacturing is high, the price is high...the masses won't spend when it is overpriced. Nice that boutique places have excellent marketing and upscale clientele...but the majority of us are Walmart people. Can we get jeans made in the US for a reasonable price?
That’s subjective. You get what you pay for. 18 dollar jeans don’t last 10-20 years.