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Judi Lynn

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Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:55 AM Apr 2017

American Apparel Reportedly Starts Making Clothes In Honduras And Nicaragua

American Apparel Reportedly Starts Making Clothes In Honduras And Nicaragua
April 7, 2017
4:42 pm EDT
By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup


Twice-bankrupt clothing company American Apparel was known for three things: its controversial founder Dov Charney; advertising that ranged from sassy to “is this porn?”; and for making all of its merchandise in the U.S. Now that Charney is long gone and the brand has been sold to Gildan, a Canadian company not associated with any of this history, it looks like some American Apparel be coming from Central America.

The New York Post reports that according to “a person familiar with the matter,” new T-shirts with American Apparel labels will emerge from factories in Honduras and Nicaragua, bound for the companies that buy wholesale T-shirts for screen-printing.

Gildan won’t be taking over American Apparel’s chain of retail stores, most of which are liquidating and closing this month. It will, however, take over the website and continue to sell clothes made for the brand at retail, perhaps to the retailers where it already sells its own brands.

The question is, will those jeans and miniskirts be made in the United States, or in those existing Gildan factories outside of the country?

More:
https://consumerist.com/2017/04/07/american-apparel-reportedly-starts-making-clothes-in-honduras-and-nicaragua/

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