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Friday, February 23, 2024
Heavy Duty and Made In The USA - a rarity these days of cheap Chinese clothing
$300 !!! Think I'll stay with the "cheap chinese" versions that I've been wearing every winter since 2006. I have 5 of them and they cost about $30 each at walmart, look/act like the day they were born.
Your choice, naturally, but every time I post something inexpensive, I hear "Chinesium," because when you pay your people in China 25 cents an hour and make you product to last about ten minutes, you can ship across the world and still underprice locally made. When I post something made here, it's too expensive. One or the other, gotta choose.
CW, don’t sweat the small shite! Keep right on posting good, old American-made. It costs more, but at least for a while longer, I prefer to pay more and keep it here.
You'll never see me complain about where something is made. Buying anything any more is hit and miss as far as quality goes. Buying US doesn't guarantee quality.
My dad always told me, "It costs a bit more to go first class, but it's always worth it." Got a Woolrich wool jacket that I've had for more than 25 years, and have only had to patch the elbows. Have some fine Filson pants also, which wear like iron, comfortably. Good gear is worth paying more.
Have a filson made in American wool jacket that is coming on 25 years old and will easily last another 25 years. Love kromer stuff too, have a bunch of their hats and their office is up here in my neck of the north woods. Happy to pay more and I am one of the peeps that screams chinesium when I see cheap shitty products that help a country that hates us.
Nope not buying this or the argument. Do not accept that 5 minutes machine sewing a few pieces of wool together quadruples the price of a coat. Bull. And US/Canadian sheep aren’t gold plated either. Nope these companies are ripping you off hugely playing on your patriotism. Sucker.
(From the real Anonymous) Yer shite runneth at fullchink capacity. Don't buy slave made stuff. "Murican (and North American is better) fer all hands.---more later.
Heard Gordon Liddy on talk radio in the 90's explain why american made stuff always costs more than foreign, and quality has nothing to do with it.
Primarily 2 things coming from the same source.
Massive gov't regulation and taxation at all steps in the manuf process.
Eliminate the gov't from the whole thing and that coat will cost less than $50, unemployment will vanish, and the wealth of the entire citizenry will soar.
I live in south east Georgia 35 miles from the coast. I rarely need a cold weather jacket. I have a Desert Pink pattern field jacket with the liner. It gets a dose of Kiwi Rain Protector ever so often. In cold weather I am not worried about style.
Back in my working days I owned a Filson tin coat, tin pants and a Filson Packer hat. Their quality was tough to beat. I've still got that 40 year old Packer hat rattling around here somewhere. The Tin coat and pants burned up in a fire, or I'm sure they'd still be serviceable today. Breathable and great for working in a light rain.
Both Filson and Woolrich have gone Yuppie/ Soyboy/ LGBTEIEIO two decades ago. Very few sizes for full figured guys like me. I'd love to get a pair of double face oil skin brush pants & small game hunting coat or the original Filson old school fishing vest. Funny story: I had an old Woolrich red & black plaid wool hunting jacket back in the early 1980's and had gone squirrel hunting on a Saturday. Monday morning I had an QC inspection in the operating nuclear plant unit near Pittsburgh where I was working. I went thru the body scan, metal detector and a manual frisk [Is that a flashlight in your pants or are you glad to see me?]; did my inspection, and was leaving. When I reached into my pocket [wearing the coat] I not only pulled out my card key and film badge but also pulled out about 5 22LR rounds! The exit guard's eyes got really big and he gestured "Get the FUCK out of here, NOW!!!" He knew me from the local sportsman's club we both belonged to and knew I wasn't a Muzzie terrorist of something. Never did that again!
I have several Stormy shirts. Had to have the buttons on 5 of them reattached as the original attachment job fell apart immediately. Not buying them anymore.
$300 !!!
ReplyDeleteThink I'll stay with the "cheap chinese" versions that I've been wearing every winter since 2006. I have 5 of them and they cost about $30 each at walmart, look/act like the day they were born.
Just found out they don't even have a liner, it's just the shell.
DeleteMy cheap chinese ones have quilted liners and are very comfy.
Your choice, naturally, but every time I post something inexpensive, I hear "Chinesium," because when you pay your people in China 25 cents an hour and make you product to last about ten minutes, you can ship across the world and still underprice locally made. When I post something made here, it's too expensive. One or the other, gotta choose.
DeleteCW, don’t sweat the small shite! Keep right on posting good, old American-made. It costs more, but at least for a while longer, I prefer to pay more and keep it here.
DeleteYou'll never see me complain about where something is made. Buying anything any more is hit and miss as far as quality goes. Buying US doesn't guarantee quality.
DeleteI've had a similar Woolrich coat & pants for over 35 years. The old feller who gave them to me probably had them for that long too.
ReplyDeleteCC Filson. Outfitter grade stuff at city slicker prices, but it lasts and lasts.
ReplyDeleteBuy once, cry once. This is WOOL, not synthetic fibers. Yes I own one, (and the hat) I use it every year for deer season. Very warm, no regrets.
ReplyDeleteMy dad always told me, "It costs a bit more to go first class, but it's always worth it." Got a Woolrich wool jacket that I've had for more than 25 years, and have only had to patch the elbows. Have some fine Filson pants also, which wear like iron, comfortably. Good gear is worth paying more.
ReplyDeleteHave a filson made in American wool jacket that is coming on 25 years old and will easily last another 25 years. Love kromer stuff too, have a bunch of their hats and their office is up here in my neck of the north woods. Happy to pay more and I am one of the peeps that screams chinesium when I see cheap shitty products that help a country that hates us.
ReplyDeleteNope not buying this or the argument. Do not accept that 5 minutes machine sewing a few pieces of wool together quadruples the price of a coat. Bull. And US/Canadian sheep aren’t gold plated either. Nope these companies are ripping you off hugely playing on your patriotism. Sucker.
ReplyDeleteDrew
(From the real Anonymous) Yer shite runneth at fullchink capacity. Don't buy slave made stuff. "Murican (and North American is better) fer all hands.---more later.
DeleteHeard Gordon Liddy on talk radio in the 90's explain why american made stuff always costs more than foreign, and quality has nothing to do with it.
DeletePrimarily 2 things coming from the same source.
Massive gov't regulation and taxation at all steps in the manuf process.
Eliminate the gov't from the whole thing and that coat will cost less than $50, unemployment will vanish, and the wealth of the entire citizenry will soar.
Filson Mackinaw for me, had it for years, will last longer than I.
ReplyDeleteI live in south east Georgia 35 miles from the coast. I rarely need a cold weather jacket. I have a Desert Pink pattern field jacket with the liner. It gets a dose of Kiwi Rain Protector ever so often. In cold weather I am not worried about style.
ReplyDelete$300.00 Riiiight
ReplyDeleteBack in my working days I owned a Filson tin coat, tin pants and a Filson Packer hat. Their quality was tough to beat.
ReplyDeleteI've still got that 40 year old Packer hat rattling around here somewhere. The Tin coat and pants burned up in a fire, or I'm sure they'd still be serviceable today. Breathable and great for working in a light rain.
Both Filson and Woolrich have gone Yuppie/ Soyboy/ LGBTEIEIO two decades ago. Very few sizes for full figured guys like me. I'd love to get a pair of double face oil skin brush pants & small game hunting coat or the original Filson old school fishing vest.
ReplyDeleteFunny story: I had an old Woolrich red & black plaid wool hunting jacket back in the early 1980's and had gone squirrel hunting on a Saturday. Monday morning I had an QC inspection in the operating nuclear plant unit near Pittsburgh where I was working. I went thru the body scan, metal detector and a manual frisk [Is that a flashlight in your pants or are you glad to see me?]; did my inspection, and was leaving. When I reached into my pocket [wearing the coat] I not only pulled out my card key and film badge but also pulled out about 5 22LR rounds! The exit guard's eyes got really big and he gestured "Get the FUCK out of here, NOW!!!" He knew me from the local sportsman's club we both belonged to and knew I wasn't a Muzzie terrorist of something. Never did that again!
The key word there might be cheap.
ReplyDeleteI have several Stormy shirts. Had to have the buttons on 5 of them reattached as the original attachment job fell apart immediately. Not buying them anymore.
ReplyDelete