Posted on 01/17/2015 4:17:42 AM PST by don-o
Just a few years back, the L.C. King Manufacturing Co., founded in 1913 and the oldest family-owned cut-and-sew garment factory in the U.S., was nearly extinct. Inside the company's weathered brick factory in Bristol, Tenn., orders for workwear staples like overalls, chore coats and dungarees had slowed to a trickle. Sewing machines sat idle, a workforce of 130 having shrunk to eight. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which lifted tariffs on cheap clothing from Mexico, was in part responsible for emptying the place out, but so was another major development: The core customers who'd kept L.C. King's famous Pointer brand vigorous for generations—factory workers, construction workers and farmers—were disappearing.
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L.C. King's experience mirrors that of other traditionally blue-collar brands, which in recent years have benefited from a surge in demand largely attributable to the rise of hipster fashion and the casual office. Heritage labels that for decades turned out rugged, no-frills workwear that nobody would have ever thought to call fashionable are now standard issue for the fashion conscious.
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>>official Wizard of Oz calendars made in China!<<
We spent a week looking for a Bible for our newest grand-daughter that was NOT made in China!
Finally found one in a second hand shop, brand new, circa 1960’s, white leather cover w/gold gilt & still in the original box for $10.00.
Like you, we do our best to limit purchases of Chinese crap to only small items.
About the “hipsters” catching up to us oldsters! The big difference between us vs. them is that we actually have worn out work gloves, work boots, etc.
Duluth sells Thorogood work shoes and boots at full retail. You can get the same a LOT cheaper elsewhere.[*]
I love my Thorogoods — they’re right up there with my 1972 Hermans that I wore to shreds. WalMart bought out Herman and they’re [EXPLETIVE DELETED] now. Thorogood are an American company — kind of a poor man’s Redwing.
[*]That reminds me of a riddle:
Q: Why did G-d create goyim?
A: SOMEbody has to buy retail.
We spent a week looking for a Bible for our newest grand-daughter that was NOT made in China!
I have a Gideon from a Canadian hotel. “Printed in Canada”
I’ve been getting catalogues from Duluth before it was cool. Can’t say I actually ordered anything though.
Stuff like Duluth Trading is expensive
Glad I’m too old to be cool. I used to wear HTG work clothes back when I did HTG work, they aren’t actually that comfortable, tend to be a bit coarse and chafe. One of the joys of moving to desk job land was not having to wear that stuff anymore.
It doesn’t even make sense.
We got some Cabela’s winter boots for one of the boys years ago.
They have gone from Boy 1 to Boy 2 to Hubs and now to me.
Some of the best money I ever spent was on Redwing workboots. Well ... those and my wedding dress. I’ve worn the boots more than once, though.
It makes plenty of sense. What don’t you understand?
The statement, or claim didn’t make any sense, what did they want that the people of 1900 had and is no longer available during the last 60 years, and what was so special about the morals of the 1920s, to say the 1950s or 60s?
What does the trite statement, even mean, what are the specifics in this silly and sweeping and vague statement that sounds like he found it in a Chinese fortune cookie at the fast food place?
If you want specifics that are concrete, good luck with that. We no longer even share language. What does ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mean?
Here's the deal and I'll leave it at that. That statement bashes boomers as a morally bankrupt and frivolous generation squandering the work and prosperity built by previous generations. While not perfect, the generations before boomers were, by and large, guided by Judeo-Christian values. This is lost on my g-g-generation. Others have contributed to the mess we're in, but boomers have taken the cake. X’ers, Y’ers and Millennial are products of the sum total of my g-g-generations failure to keep the flame. However, boomers love the quality and genuine value of the work of the past. Millions of examples litter modern culture. A quick pick would be the endless use of Mission homes and furnishings in film, books and TV. You may get the picture.
Maybe not.
Well, that's about all I'm going to say. You get it or you don't. I don't really care to endlessly debate Boomer qualities if your feelings are hurt because your don't fit the generalization. If you think it's a stupid thought, well, that's your opinion and everyone is entitled to one - for now.
You really need to learn some history, your vaunted generations destroyed America, America was long lost by the time the 90s arrived and the Nixon voting boomers started reaching power.
The first time that all the boomers were old enough to even vote in a presidential election, was 1984, they were not running America during the decades from say the 1930s through the 1970s, when the nation’s demise was put into place, with the fatal bullet being the 1965 Immigration Act.
Thanks for your insights!
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