If I didn't need cold medication so bad, this would have turned me away.

[camwyn]

Sweatshirt hanging in the entrance to the Penn Station K-Mart. Logo on front is something about New York. Includes a scroll-type graphic bit on which is printed "Made In America."

Closer examination: the fabric care tag says "Made in Honduras."

I realise the front of the shirt is referring to the person wearing it, and that some whinger out there is going to make a case for 'it says America, not USA, so it could refer to Central America', but I am in no mood for geographical sophistry. My cold meds have not kicked in and I am CRANKY.

I have taken pictures of both bits of the shirt using my celphone camera. Will post them later, maybe after I am home and have slept for several hours.

grr.

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[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Let us mope together. I have a sinus infection.

[camwyn]

Okay.

... god, now there's a nosebleed on top of everything else...

ClassicDrogn has worked in textiles

[(Anonymous)]

Bah. Even when the fabric care tag says "Made in USA" it often as not means that the *tag* was sewn into a 'partially completed' garment imported from somewhere where five cents a day is outstanding pay.

There is a business about ten miles from where I live now that does exactly this, though they are no longer allowed to include 'Made with pride in Vermont' tags.

- CD

Re: ClassicDrogn has worked in textiles

[camwyn]

I'm not really the least bit surprised, but blatantly advertising one thing externally and then internally saying 'actually, what's up front is bullshit' is damned annoying.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

*hands her tissues* Ah, well, it could be worse. You could be coughing up bunnies.

[camwyn]

True dat. And at least the nosebleed seems to have subsided.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

*pats her* That's great!