Here is a link that might be helpful...I haven't had a chance to look through it thoroughly, but anyway...http://www.usstuff.com/
Red Wing Boots are made here in Minnesota, they make everything from work boots to mountaineering boots. I think the companies 100 years old this year.
Fox River Socks are made in Osage Iowa and are even wore by astronauts in space and high flying hippies too.
hell yeah redwing poans...if i remember right ive tour thier operations before...they are in Hibbing right?
sort of neat site. I cracked up at "some hemp goods made from imported hemp" uhhhh... ALL hemp is imported!
http://madeinusa.org/nav.cgi?data/clot http://www.usstuff.com/shoes.htm i mean, just do a google search... here's one with "all made in america" http://www.google.com/search?hs=OmT&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=all+made+in+america&btnG=Search there's also this t-shrit company, i forget what they're called and i'll try to remember to edit this post later with their name, that make their entire product in the u.s. and use all natural dyes. their shirts are really beautiful and you can find them in most common stores. i've found them in grocery stores and malls.
ok, yea check out The Mountain's clothes. entirely made in the u.s. with natural dyes. none of mine have faded noticably for about 4 years. and i love their kitten and puppy shirts. they're so cute and "homely".. lol.
you can't blame clothing companies for outsourcing just like you can't blame farms for going factory and pumping their livestock full of harmful(to humans) hormones and chemicals to make buisness easier and cheaper. yea. outsourcing (i'm mainly talking about textiles) is bad for our country's employment rate and a lot of the time - not all the time, i know - the materials come from sweatshops with the shittiest pay and horrable labor conditions. you'd probably bring up that that doesn't mean we should boycott them because at least they're getting something, but boycott is the only way to make a commertial corporation change its ways. they know that they need to improve the factories that they use by paying them more and implementing standards. companies are already working on it, like Nike. ...not to promote Nike or anything . Nike only started imporving their factories after more people were learning about the conditions and boycotting started to get worse than they wanted to tolerate. they're deffenatly not going to change because they realize that something is bad for people and therefore wrong. haha so, you can't blame them if you only think as far as their own company's welfare but i give more of a shit about the world than them. but mostly, i like knowing that what i'm wearing isn't from a sweatshop. fuck, i really dont even like to think about it. i think we should go back to local farming and sheer our own sheep.
Carol's Western Wear has two stores in Maryland (Laurel and Glen Burnie) featuring apparel mostly made in the USA. They do offer on-line shopping as well.
I don't think selecting locally-made or made in the country where you live FIRST is necessarily boycotting. It's simply a choice. If I buy a Nikon camera am I boycotting Canon? No, Nikon fit my needs better. Canon may be great for another shutterbug. They are fine cameras. My main reasoning was I had Nikon glass because I own Nikon film cameras. I f I get a cuppa tea, I'm not boycotting coffee. I just want something different. but I found this while looking up Deva Wear online. NOTE: Free Republic is a righty site most of the time. browse with your BS detector on high. but resources are resources. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906690/posts
How can you tell the SHIRTS themselves are US made? I can't enlarge the graphics on the site enough to read labels on my 15 inch screen.
...i mean boycott, as in consciously chosing not to buy a product because you disagree with it for whatever reason. i didn't say anything about chosing something esle because you just like it better or whatever. and i dunno about the actual t-shirt. i thought that i learned that they do them entirely in the us from regular companies. but i can't really reamember if i learned that or just got the impression. and it is they're whole thing... natural dyes and u.s. labor...
boycott was at Slutter, not you synaptic.. I really don't think those are natural dyes. They look like procion to me & I've been involved with a dye artist www.tiedyepaul.com for 11 years. THat's a lot of shirts, dresses and tapestries. THe colors are too vibrant. I KNOW liquid Blue uses Procion. ignore the broken links: the site is under construction again.
What is wrong with trade? If you don't beleive in trade, then maybe you don't beleive in the equality of mankind.
i'm sorry, drumminmama. i've been at my gramma's and her computer is far less than what i'm used to so it's too easy to just assume i know what's going on than to take the long frustrating time to make sure. i dunno.. maybe they're lying.. everyone lies.. nothing is real.