Looking for Clothing Union Made in the USA?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.allamericanclothing.com/





Supporting OUR USA economy couldn't be any easier! All of the clothing we carry is made right here in America! So take a look around and shop with confidence...Every purchase is backed by our "All American Guarantee" If you aren't 100% satisfied with any item simply return it for a refund or exchange within 90 days! With so many options and an unbeatable return policy, shouldn't All American Clothing be your one stop shop for clothing made in the USA! All of our clothes are made in America! The factories that make the clothing are located in Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.

[lonestarnot]

1. Hells yeah!

:applause:

[unhappycamper]

2. Thanks Steve!

:hi:

[Vinca]

3. Thanks! I'll save the site.

[AirmensMom]

4. Thanks!

They even carry my size! :bounce:

[Snarkoleptic]

5. There's a store in NW Suburban Chicago that sells only items made in America.

It's owned by a progressive who advertised liberally on WCPT, which is the local Air America affiliate.
I believe they sell the clothing mentioned in the OP as well.

http://nortonsusa.com/

[formercia]

6. The Saipan-Made in America scam.

http://www.usstuff.com/saipan.htm

Bush Gang at its best.

[RTBerry]

13. Are you saying the link in the OP is a scam?

The site clearly states, "The factories that make the clothing are located in Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin." Is this untrue?

[formercia]

15. No, I was just making people aware of the scams out there.

Not everything that says Made in USA is Made in USA.

[Career Prole]

23. Appreciate the heads-up.

:thumbsup:

[sellitman]

7. Bookmarked and noted!

You can be sure they will get my business gladly.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. Added to my favorites. Thanks! nt

[trotsky]

9. I have purchased several items from them and can vouch for the quality.

Had a pair of jeans that didn't fit right - it was super-easy to do an exchange.

[Aristus]

10. The description I read on a pair of their jeans says that their labor is non-union.

So, WTF? :wtf:

[RTBerry]

14. UAW link

http://www.uaw2280.com/americanclothing.htm

[ogneopasno]

11. Are those all really union? Here are some other union clothing places:

www.justiceclothing.com

www.unionhouse.com

[GinaMaria]

12. kicked, rec'ed and bookmarked

thanks

[upi402]

16. k/r I love my Carharts! but...

they're not all made in America anymore. So sad.

[quiller4]

30. some Carharts are still made her but not all n/t

[bertman]

17. Thanks for posting this, OmahaSteve. My company started buying American-made,

union-made apparel two years ago. We started with Carhartt and also went with Union House. Both made quality goods--jackets, sweatshirts, t-shirts, polos--but the detailing was a bit sloppy on some of the shirts. All in all, we are glad we made the decision to buy American made goods.

[Omaha Steve]

18. A few items may not be union made

But they are all MADE IN THE USA! :-)

[Thothmes]

35. Prison Blues fit into that catagory

made in the Oregon State Penitentary. They only make work clothing.

[spooky3]

19. Thanks - plan to order soon!

[DollyM]

20. Those of us in rural areas do not have these choices . . .

And by rural, I mean a town of 1200 people, next to a town of 8000 people and on the other side a town of 14000 people. (Even though rural is defined as less than 50,000 people, towns of that size can get malls, we can't!) Our area was largely manufacturing based until the mid 80's. My dad worked at the shoe factory, my mom worked at the dress factory. Both were able to retire, barely, before both factories closed. I remember growing up when my dad would bring home shoes for our entire family from the factory that they made. He was very proud of this fact. Same with my mother, we would shop in the factory store for my dresses. Then both factories went to repairing work that came to them from mexico and were told they would be doing this while both factories would be gearing up to close. Now there is only one factory left in the area that makes wearable goods and that is small factory that makes uniforms. They are considing moving their base of operations also to "someplace" cheaper. When the factories left, so did the jobs, so did the main source of income. Literally the only store left in our area is Wal Mart. We do not have a K Mart, A target, our Goody's just closed. Adding to that insult is the fact that Wal Mart, who drove the little stores out of business, is no longer carrying fabric for sewing and has eliminated much of it's craft department. That means the closest store that carries fabric is 70 miles away!!!! I eek out out a living by making dolls and use a lot of fabric and craft supplies. Now if I need a paint brush, I have to drive 70 miles or order it online which will cost me twice what the paint brush is worth in shipping costs. It is all good and well to say look for the American brand, but it doesn't translate in reality in areas like mine. I wish companies would locate in rural areas like this again and make products here again. These are good, honest, hardworking people who have worked in factories for generations but there is no more work to be found here.

[hay rick]

22. Great post.

Buying American-made and buying Union are easy options for some and barely possible for others. Given your circumstances, you can probably find activities to promote your presumably progressive values that are equally or more effective and less personally costly to you than boycotting the local Walmart.

Do you have a web site for your dolls?

[DollyM]

38. Yes, I have a web site . . .

www.tinastots-dolls.com
Without the Internet, I wouldn't survive. Most of my sales are to the east coast or out of country, mostly England and Canada. I had a small shop here a couple of years ago and many people would come in and look and made positive comments but very few would buy, due to local economics. I felt bad to close the shop as it was another store front sitting empty but I couldn't afford to keep going in the hole either when the Internet gave me more sales and much less overhead. I dream of a day when we can regain some jobs here and keep hoping that someone will open a fabric store and craft store and so forth. We used to have several of both until Wal-Mart swept in and put them out of business. Then Wal-mart stops carrying the very things they put out of business. Really ticks me off!
Sadly Wal-Mart is just about the only employer left in the area. My husband taught at a local college and would see many of his former students working at wal mart after graduation because they could not find jobs in the fields in which they were trained. Many families here go back for generations and don't want to leave.
We all hope that somehow the jobs will come back. Our community leaders are very shortsighted in this area and work to recruit factories but when they get them here, they give them lots of tax breaks and incentives. They stay until the incentives run out and then they move on to cheaper countries I suppose. We need to re-think our priorities in this country and start being loyal to our American companies as well as them being loyal to the American people who are buying their products.

[hay rick]

45. We're importing cheap goods-

and exporting our standard of living. At some point the declining American standard of living is going to be so obvious that anyone can figure it out.

I visited your website- very well done... and the dolls are truly amazing- very lifelike in appearance and highly customized. I hope the quality of your work brings you a measure of prosperity.

[DollyM]

59. very well said . . .

we have sold our way of life for cheap goods. Sounds like our greed has finally caught up to us and everyone is paying the price. In some ways I am very blessed to live in a rural area. A big day for us is grilling some hamburgers with our family. We don't have tv and that's just fine with us. Life is pure and simple.

[hay rick]

61. No TV?!

I think I envy you. I grew up in a small town in the 1950's when TV was first becoming popular. My parents were not early adopters. I used to visit my friends' house to watch the Mickey Mouse Club and Victory at Sea. We moved to the suburbs (and got a TV) when I was going into sixth grade.

I've always viewed TV as a very mixed blessing- it has some value but it also displaces a lot of healthier activities. Also, I am absolutely hostile to most television news which I view not as a kind of journalism but as a substitute for journalism. Their shows are a kind of slow-acting social poison- they encourage people to think only as consumers and not as citizens.

[DollyM]

63. no, we do not have TV and have survived!

We actually started this back when our son was in third grade. There is a national promotion called "TV Turn off week" in April every year. Our son's third grade class did it as a project and everyone was amazed at the results. We did it for the next couple of years and then realized that we didn't miss it when it was gone and never turned it back on. Besides the fact that we can save on the ever rising cable bill, we have conversations with each other and our son, there is less fighting and tension in the house, chores get done with less fussing, and so forth. I fully admit we have rocking chairs and we sit outside in the evening when the weather is warmer and watch the sun go down. The internet, radio and newspapers are where we get our information. I did go next door to watch the election night coverage and the inauguration coverage. That was too good to not see! (We live right next door to my mother, the house where I grew up.)
If you have kids, I encourage you to google in National TV Turn Off Week and start a promotion. You will be amazed at what a difference it makes in your life.

[GinaMaria]

49. I found some links for you

Google: Fabrics made in the usa

http://www.usafabrics.com/products.htm
http://www.allbrands.com/productsearch.php?catalog=sewingmachinestore&.autodone=nsearch.html&search=made+in+usa (used the search criteria ‘made in usa’ to find American made products only)
http://www.hoopitall.com/stabilizers
this looks to be about embroidery, but they may have other craft items too
http://www.emmaonesock.com/fabrics/rayonlycrajerseyel.asp
Fabrics made in the usa

Google: art supplies made in usa
http://www.madeinusa.org/nav.cgi?data/art_
Don’t know if you can buy your paint brushes here…

I just did a quick search. There are tons of sites you can compare prices etc and get it delivered to your door. Your dolls are works of art.

[DollyM]

58. hey, thanks for the links!

Thanks, I will save those and peruse them sometime.

[ogneopasno]

29. Thank God for the Internet.

I, too, live in a rural area and we buy a lot of our clothes online from places like the links here and the ones I added upthread. I'm willing to buy less and less often to pay more to help save someone else's job.

[wolfie001]

21. Union Grocery Stores Also!!

I know times are tough on everybody, but please shop Union grocery stores also!! Thanks:fistbump:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. My Ralph's grocery store is union!

I am proud to shop there.

And when they struck management several years ago, I shopped elsewhere...

Welcome to DU!

You need to post more often...;)

:hi:

[ddeclue]

26. Don't think there are any in FL...

If you can tell me which are union here I'd appreciate it.

Former Kroger worker...

[tosh]

28. Hi....

:hi:

I live (part of the time) in a rural area which lost its Kroger stores years ago when the employees wanted to join the union. It was a great loss to the region that we mourn to this day.

[ddeclue]

25. Thanks for the link! nt

[Grinchie]

27. Look at that crap, perhaps if they made something that was functional

Incredible B.S.

But then again, I have traveled the world, and know that short sleeves are not appropriate in cany cases.

Not a single example of Cotton twill to save you from sunburn, hordes of blood sucking insects, or protect you from the elements.

You want to know the best way to buy American? It's called the second hand store and looking for quality and functionality.

[Omaha Steve]

32. These are good enough for the Obama's!

http://www.hartmarx.com/products.htm



Union made in the USA, but the company is in bankruptcy.

http://www.google.com/search?q=hartmarx+bankruptcy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a




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[GinaMaria]

50. Are all their lines made in USA?

I will think about Misook or Barrie Pace for my next suit purchase if they are.

[Omaha Steve]

66. As far as I know

They have a plant in K.C. that I know of.

[goodgd_yall]

31. How timely

personally, I was just thinking the other day how I rarely see "the union label" on clothes anymore---you know the IGWU on the tag? I rarely buy clothes, but when I do, I want to support union-made clothing manufacturers.

I came across this site too: http://www.unitehere.org/buyunion/promo.php

[DollyM]

40. That was my mom's union where she worked. . .

I remember when they had this commercial on television with this catchy little tune "look for the union label, when you are buying your (?) shoes or clothes . . . (can't remember the first item) I was a little girl then but I knew that was my mother's union and when the camera would pan a group shot of all the union workers featured in the commercial, I would always look for my mother in the group. Silly me but I just knew she was a member of ILGW and had to be in that crowd! LOL!
The factory where she worked had changed hands several times by the time it closed. I remember some of the saddest days are when she would come home from work and complain that they were having to repair work on garments that were being made in Mexico. My Mom took a great deal of pride in her work and it made her so angry to have to repair work that was being done in Mexico that was substandard and yet they would eventually be the ones who took her job as well as many others. She was able to retire but many others were not as lucky and that was the beginning of the end for the economy in this area as factories began to close here and went to China, India and Mexico. Then you could hardly find anything to wear that wasn't made in one of those places.

[goodgd_yall]

62. I remember that commercial

and of course the tune. Apparently, the ILGWU joined with other workers to form another union and nowadays unionized garment workers belong to the UNITE HERE union. But as your story shows, garment workers have pretty much been priced out by garment workers in other countries who work for pittance.

[Kablooie]

33. But darn! I can't get a kimono there.

[Kurovski]

34. K&R. (nt)

[stlsaxman]

36. Kick & Rec #50!!!

Thank you!

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Carhartts are officially high fashion in Alaska.

They have a "who has the funkiest Carhartt" contest at our state fair every fall. ;)

[Naturyl]

39. Haven't looked, but I'm sure I can't afford it.

Economic realities have always made "shopping my values" an impossibility.

[hobbit709]

41. Look first, yatter later

Prices are real reasonable.

[Naturyl]

43. $35 to $39 for a pair of jeans.

http://www.allamericanclothing.com/bottoms.html

Considering that I now pay about $4.00 a pair at the thrift shop, that's way out of my price range. On the few occasions each decade when I buy brand new clothes, it's the $17.00 Rustler jeans at Wal-Mart.

One's definition of "real reasonable" changes a bit on a fixed income of less than $700 a month.

[GinaMaria]

52. Resale and thrift shops are an excellent option for

the environment, it's a green choice!
supporting American workers, small businesses
finding great quality fashion
... it's also meaningful to give new life and purpose to something someone no longer wanted or needed.

[Quantess]

56. Absolutely!

I get about 95% of my clothing from thrift stores and second hand. Unfortunately, about 87% of that comes from third world countries, and the other 13% comes from merely struggling counties.

But ironically, from Goodwill, I recently purchased a USA made pair of socks still in the package! They are great, thick and cushy, and they seem really durable. Maybe the person who gave them away didn't like the kitschy lizard and jalapeno design?

[GinaMaria]

68. It takes the right person to pull of Lizards and jalapenos!

Some hospitals also have resale shops as part of their fund raising. Don't know if there are any near you, but it's another option to try out.

[hobbit709]

67. That's double what I average.

I'm not fit enough to work full time and not disabled enough for disability. I'm just glad my wife has a job and I get medical care from the VA. In a good month I might make $600 but then some months I'm lucky to make $300.

[Maru Kitteh]

46. T-shirts are 6.99. Everything looked pretty reasonable to me.

[woundedkarma]

42. Organic underwear made in the USA :>

I figure this is on topic. My girlfriend's mom has made a small business out of sewing underwear from organically grown cotton.

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/MaggieAliceArtOrganicClothingBooks">Maggie Muse

[GinaMaria]

51. Thanks, I've been book marking so much from this thread

Have you tried the underwear? How do they compare with more recongnized brands like Hanes etc?

[totodeinhere]

44. I expected that this stuff would be very expensive. But at first glance it looks...

like the prices are very competitive. That just goes to show that the American worker can produce quality products that are competitively priced if only they get the chance.

[burning rain]

47. Good to know it's still legal!

:eyes:

[Juche]

48. Thanks

They have some decent shirts

[femrap]

53. I ordered a couple pair

of those 40 below socks!!! I have such cold feet due to Renauds. And that great Made in USA t-shirt for my mom....she'll love it for Mother's day!!!

Thanks for the link.

[inthebrain]

54. This stuff is stupid and it never works

The Unions especially the UAW adopted this and fell backwards because of it.

Supporting a company because they are American does not raise wages or leads to democracy in the work place. Alls it does is raise the profits of the bosses and the workers still wind up getting exploited.

Hey hey wuddyasay.

This was made in the USA.

Blah!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

55. Thanks. Also check out http://www.nosweatapparel.com/

http://www.nosweatapparel.com/

Bienestar International manufactures union-made footwear & casual clothing under the brand name No Sweat™. Our gear is produced by independent trade union members in the US, Canada, and the developing world. We believe that the only viable response to globalization is a global labor movement.

No Sweat is the pioneer of fair trade fashion and footwear, setting an empowered, unionized workforce as the gold standard for fair trade clothing. We market direct to consumers via the internet, through our network of independent retailers and by custom orders to wholesale customers. We provide a competitively priced fairly traded product to you and a living wage to our workers. How? By not advertising. We rely on you to help us spread the word! To see how, go to Globalize THIS. It’s our world. Let’s change it.

PS
I am glad you got your puter back... :D

[Lost in CT]

57. Walmart has pants for $3 dollars...

Who needs to wash those just buy a new pair...

We need to get rid of cheap imports if we are to help American manufactures... perhaps a 25% VAT on all foreign made goods would be a good start.

[DollyM]

64. why don't we have a VAT?

I assumed we did. Every other country I ship too does. My dolls seem to get snagged quit often by Customs (I think because they are life size and the boxes are so large)and the VAT can be as high as $75.00 American! But my customers grumble and pay it because they know they are getting a high quality product that they cannot buy there. If it would cause more companies to manufacture here to avoid the VAT, then I am all for it. I do believe we need to make it harder for companies to set up shop in India, China and Mexico (and wherever else)to avoid paying American workers a fair wage. We should also reward companies that stay here but then again, buying their products that are made here should be reward enough. It just comes down to greed being the bottom line. If it is more cost effective to produce goods here than overseas, then they will.

[The_Casual_Observer]

60. Bill's Khakis are made in PA too.

[Motown_Johnny]

65. cross linking to another similar thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5263305

[LeftHander]

69. It is a start....not exactly flattering... but a start...

The selections are a bit on the bland and conservative side...pretty much wash the car, mow the lawn, sort of clothing...

[LeftHander]

70. Was the Union Jean Company....

I used to really like the painter pants and jean shirts....they had a very soft denim...that was really comfortable.

I think my partner would like some of the shirts...he is a solid polo for work kinda guy....

[Lars39]

71. I wish they made tall sizes for men.