What’s sadder is that 1/3 are willing to pay more, but aren’t really given the option to do so. I think we should be able to walk into Wal-Mart or JCPenny’s or Target and have a choice.

@gibson8or

Kudos to your Dad. I don’t think buying solely made in US clothing is an answer to the problems of the garment industry, but consumers, like your dad, taking an interest in where and how their clothes are made is.

It could be worse. My father hates to buy anything not made in the US, especially his clothes. It kind of makes sense, since he’s an electrician who mostly works on factories, and by buying foreign products he’d be helping to put himself out of work. It drives my mom crazy, though, trying to find stuff NOT made overseas.

That seems sort of sad to me. I would hope more than 1/3 of Americans would be willing to pay more to be sure their garments are made under good working conditions.

Senator Sherrod Brown endorsed “Where am I Wearing?” One of his assistants told me that he (the assistant) thought that you shouldn’t be allowed to wear something unless you could locate the country in which it was made on the map. I think a lot of us would be naked.

Bruce, Yep, China is the King of Shoes. In the chapter on China, I mention a story from my days selling woman’s shoes and recount an occasion when a woman game in looking for hiking boots with one small requirement — that they weren’t made in China. At first I didn’t realize how impossible of a requirement that was. Out of 20 different styles of hiking boots we sold, we had one pair not made in China. They were made in Slovakia and didn’t fit her feet right. She left bootless.

Thanks for the comments! Hope to see you all back here tomorrow.