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To: CIBvet
Also New Balance makes shoes/boots that are both narrow for people like my wife and wide for people like me.

My older son is an avid fisher, hunter and boater. He loves the Grammaci clothing when our rainy season is over. He gets 4-5 years from each item, and he puts them through the tests.
124 posted on 02/12/2003 7:41:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: Grampa Dave
WINTER COATS ... almost forgot. Been searching for over 2yrs for a Made In USA all-around winter coat.

All the down coats these days are either made by desperate little girls in Communist China or some other equally repressive situation.

SOME of the Carhartt stuff is still made by honestly paid U.S.laborers, but I see now that all their flannel shirt manufacturing is coming out of Mehecho.

I scoured the Cabella's catalogs for over 2yrs and couldn't find a single U.S.A.Made winter coat. After berating the GREEDY Cabella Brothers repeatedly on their CS line for not carrying USA Made products anymore, I finally settled on a Windstopper Fleece jacket (and pants) Made in Canada.

An excellent product, at a reasonable price. Who says clothing manufacturers can't produce a quality product, at competitive prices, with honestly paid labor, right here in the 'good ol USA' and/or by our increasingly-socialist neighbors to the north.

Just ask Gramicci, or the Canadian manufacturers how to do it.

Perhaps by settling for the approx profit margins CEO's found quite livable back in the '50's + '60's + '70's, before total GREED became the rule rather than the exception.

147 posted on 02/12/2003 1:55:37 PM PST by CIBvet
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