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A pair of jeans made in the USA purchased about 1997, lasted until 2016. I remember liking them so much that I returned to the same major department store for more where I bought them in about 1999, but the jeans of that same brand name were no longer U.S. made and were so obviously different than the earlier ones. I did not buy any.   |
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I remember the day I bought this USA-made tape measure at a salvage yard when "just a kid" many years ago. The savage yard owner commented on how many of them he had for sell had the black mark at the same place. On the way home my Dad told me if he'd known I was going to buy it he would have given me one of his extra ones. Anyway, it was all beat up when I bought it for my tool box and still lasted decades before finally tearing as the picture shows.  |
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Some men's belts...
I bought this made-in-Mexico belt from a guy walking around selling belts at a bus stop on some long highway in Mexico over a year ago. It is made by JR Belts and is of very high quality.  This belt is made in Taiwan. Kind of hard to see the lettering in these photos. It's at least a few years old and only has some minor rippling as shown.  There's a market in Mexico City where I used to buy a Mexican-made belt each year to support the local shop. The belts don't hold up so well sometimes. This one has some major cracking.  Here's a Mexican-made belt that has held up for years but with major color fading. In Mexico City there's a shoe repair store it seems every few blocks, and they could color it to new looking for a low price.  I've had this USA-made Tommy Hilfiger belt for maybe over 20 years with nary a problem except minor color fading.  But this Tommy Hilfiger belt made in China didn't last long before pieces of leather started falling off, kind of visible in the photo.  |
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In the summer of 2017 I was pruning a cassia bush when a handle broke off of a Stanley hand clipper. I have no idea where it was made, so this doesn't mean a whole lot, except that another set made in Japan with the orange handles I also bought several years ago are still working great. There's no complaint about the Stanley set because they served me well for years. I think this issue is more about metal handles being better than plastic ones over the long haul.     |
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I bought a jacket in the 1970s in Salina, Kansas that I believe was not only made in the U.S. but in a factory in Kansas. It lasted me for decades and still serves as a work jacket.   |
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This just seems odd to me to have an old sweater from Australia. That's a long, long way from here.  |
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Years ago I accidentally left an Italian-made pair of scissors in Mexico City outside under a covered patio. They rusted. I hadn't seen the fine print that they needed to be oiled. Should have known that maybe? The replacements I bought were made in Pakistan. It seems the company learned their lesson to use stainless steel. Before this experience, having had great eyeglasses made in Italy, I would have preferred made in Italy to made in Pakistan. I must admit the Pakistani scissors are of good quality.   The Italy scissors had instructions to keep the scissors oiled, shown here. The Pakistan scissors didn't.  |
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I can remember when every shirt I had was made in the US. I found these labels on some shirts. (I don't buy shirts made in China for myself.) | |||||||||||
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