Tariffs or no tariffs, the conventional wisdom in the apparel industry is there is no way clothing manufacturing can move back to the United States.
That’s wrong, says American Giant CEO Bayard Winthrop: The San Francisco-based company makes T-shirts in America that retail at Walmart for $12.98. But he keeps having the same irritating conversation lately where someone tells him it can’t be done.
“People don’t know what they’re talking about,” he says. “We’re doing it right now.”
American Giant has been making all-American clothes—from the cotton fields to the factory to the store—for over a decade. Its clothes are sewn in factories in North Carolina and Los Angeles.
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