A year without "Made in China"

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by icenine

I agree with your aims.....but at Walmart one can by a pair of new blue jeans for about $10 bucks (ten years ago you could anyway).....with such hard times and low wages that are a fact of life today it would be hard to get that shopper back to Levis at say $40.

When I was a kid my mom would take me to Sears and buy new Levi's for like $30 at the mall....maybe three pairs for the school year. That was a not an insubstantial sum back then in the 70s.

things are different now.

Problem here are Levi's are only "assembled" here from denim and buttons from out of country.

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Problem here are Levi's are only "assembled" here from denim and buttons from out of country.

My 501's aren't even assembled here. The two pair I just looked at are made in Nicaragua and Colombia.

I have always tried to buy USA as much as I can afford, but there are just some things that I don't use enough to spend the extra cash on...tools being the big one. If the price difference isn't too substantial I almost always buy domestic.