Reply #15: I'm REALLY glad we're having this dialog.

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I am SO ****ING sick and tired of these "department" stores. Totally homogeneous, and they ALL sell the same CRAP!

The SIZES are wrong, because Chinese women ARE NOT BUILT like Western women, and the Chinese women are the ones making our clothes: narrow hips, smaller bones, smaller chests, narrower shoulders.

I have some old clothes I found in storage that I meant to give to goodwill many years ago, and for some reason, I didn't. The size 8 pants fit me fine, even though they're out of style, or are thread-bare. Now, when I go to a store, I'm wearing what is NOW KNOWN as a size 12 or 14. But, it's a size 12 or 14, and they're made in CHINA or India or the Philippines.

At least when we were buying things made in Mexico, we had something in common with those making our clothes...body types, for one. This is NOTHING against Indian or Chinese or Philippine women! It's something against our CORPORATE GIANTS who are DICTATING what we're going to buy, and the fact that NOTHING is made in America BY Americans, FOR Americans.

The GLOBAL CORPORATIONS are also skimping on the fabrics. They are dull as hell, for the most part, and already thread-bare when you buy them. AMERICAN textiles actually had some substance to them, in the past. We'd be better off making our clothes out of SHEETS! At least you know what the damned THREAD COUNT is for the material!

There's nowhere to buy something that has any kind of STYLE to it: you can buy a zillion styles of T-shirts, in a wide array of colors, showing varying amounts of midriff. And THAT is supposed to be "style"?

The clothing companies ALSO have NO CLUE that the baby boomers are a huge portion of our population...that we still have money (sometimes) to buy clothes. And baby boomers tend to be fairly willing to turn loose of our money to look nice, when given a choice. We'd buy good stuff all day long, if it was there to buy.

Instead, there are clothes in a size "large" that a 10-year-old couldn't fit into (I know...I've taken them shopping).

And THAT is what the "mall stores" sell...or try to. Cheap, cheap, cheap merchandise that looks like it's already been in a yard sale a time or two. Macy's used to have some really cool clothes, way back when. But none of the "mall stores" have hardly anything "original" looking, or decent looking, that makes someone "feel good" wearing it.

"Consolidation" is what has happened to clothes, and "globalization" is what has happened to consumers. We just DON'T WANT WHAT THEY'RE SELLING! And the dumb turds haven't figured it out.

Ok. So...I miss the "good old days". The good old days when things were made in America. The good old days when things had SUBSTANCE. The good old days when you could find something that matched your own personal "style".

T-shirts have been the "style" for over 15 years now, and that sucks.

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