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[jnuahs]

Conversation overheard today in the financial firm I work at:

Lady: Oh I love your tie!
Man: Yeah! It's beautiful, it was hand stitched. Probably by somebody making less than a penny a day!
(they both chuckle and enter his office to discuss how he can invest her money to make her more money)

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[brocklisoup]

I never realized how ignorant most Americans (myself included) are until I started taking Cultures in Globalization this quarter. Fact is, his tie WAS made by someone making a buck or two a day. All of our clothes are hand-stitched. Cloth is too floppy and the human form too complex too efficiently automate it, so everything we wear is still made by people. I always figured it was all done by machines, but unfortunately, he was right.

[wxs]

I would love to see a source for your opinion. I'm not saying I disagree, just that I would like more information (specifically about why clothing manufacturing can not be automated).

[brocklisoup]

"Fabric is too floppy, the human body too irregular and the stitching too intricate for much automation beyond the sewing machine and the individual operator - almost always a young woman - making one garment at a time. This is very laborious. So jeans are stitched together in hundreds upon thousands of 'sweatshops' that have sniffed out the lowest wages in the world in places like Guatemala, Bangladesh, and the Philipines, or in immigrant 'rag trade' areas of Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Sydney, and London."

The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, by David Random, page 102.

[jmboss17]

I just chuckled.....cause I watched this video clip from Chris'picture Gallery of Slideman giving you a history on the dobro. You poor thing :-P