OK, while there has been a bit of a thread creap here, I still have to point out that whether or not any clothing manufacturing jobs go south, it means nothing to us as a world power... absolutely nothing.

There are core industries, such as air craft and areospace, weapons technology, information technology, transportation networking, healthcare research, etc. which do. Those jobs which are low skill and repetative need to go south, to force such countries such as Mexico to train and augment their work force and reduce our immigrant influx. We are in a world economy, which President Clinton knew well when he signed NAFTA (a VERY inconvenient fact for Democrats). As Bob Dylan sang, "Please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand, for the times they are a changing".

And for those who can't change, they will end their days staring out to sea for jobs that are never coming back.

As for the shirt, right now there is a clever manufacturer in Bumfuck, Eygpt, who is working on a cheaper way to produce a better shirt, after he saw L.L Beans on the Internet. Now if he can just find a way to get it to market... which will require American planes, American fabric manufacturing software, American distribution networking, American advertising on American media... It doesn't take a teaspoon of brains to get the picture... just point and click...