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[Omaha Steve]

http://www.justiceclothing.com/thereis/justice/

[Nay]

1. I'd love to, Steve, but I have almost no luck finding simple BUSINESS

clothing for work! As in your link, there are many American companies making casual clothes, jeans, tshirts, hoodies, etc., but try to find an unlined short-sleeved blazer with matching trousers. Or a dressy blouse in anything but white. It's just impossible. Lots of us have to go to work, and we can't wear hoodies or tshirts!

[Omaha Steve]

2. More choices including suits made in the USA (Just like Obama wore for his acceptance speech)

http://www.unitehere.org/buyunion/promo.php


Full listings at the link above.

A sample http://www.hartmarx.com/products.htm:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elana-levin/obama-will-accept-nominat_b_122143.html

Obama Will Accept Nomination in Suit Made by Union Members

Posted August 28, 2008

Tonight, the world will watch as Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination and he'll do it in a union made suit. Today everyone will learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew-- that if you bother to buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too---and by that I mean union made. You can find out where to get your own union-made clothes on the UNITE HERE website. And no, American Apparel isn't union made.

I know you've heard it before, buying union made matters because only in a unionized workplace can employees have the chance to negotiate with their bosses on equal footing so they can have family and community sustaining jobs. Unions invented the middle class and the country cannot survive as a democracy without a stable middle class. But in the face of a Republican party that has never met a worker they didn't want to sell out to a megacorp we need to hold our leaders accountable: do they wear their values or do they wear sweat-shop threads?

FULL story at link.

[Nay]

3. Thanks, Steve. I did look at one of your sites that had some blazers

and slacks, and next time I shop, I'll go there. I always have trouble getting shortsleeved blazers and dress blouses, though. And I always buy Carhartt for my son (he's an electrician).