The American clothing manufacturing market (I should say branding market) is a prime example of how global outsourcing destroyed quality and US companies along with it. Eddie Bauer, Brooks Brothers, LL Bean and a host of others used to make good quality clothes. Take Brooks Brothers men’s underwear as an example - the boxer shorts used to be thick as pants with thick bands. Today they are indistinguishable from any other brand that you get on Amazon. Why? Because they are all made in China or some other Asian factory with a different label slapped on them. Cheap quality, thin material, nothing to distinguish them. Same with shirts and pants. The common denominator is that they are all cheap. For a while, they traded on the brand value of the name. Then consumers wised up and realized that they sold the same cheap crap as everyone else. So they all went bankrupt. Now you can’t buy high quality clothes in from a US manufacturer.
These hedge fund firms (Authentic Brands) have destroyed everything. Brooks Brothers is also from them.
Now Seattle and Peking have cornered fashion where nothing else matters.