Garment Manufacturers in America?

Do garment manufacturing companies continue to exist in America or have they all packed up and moved offshore?
The sad truth is most have gone not out of desire to leave but many were forced to seek shelter where operating costs
were lower in their quest to survive.
Long known for setting the bar for quality craftmanship, American manufacturers are a dying breed and aside from rising labor and materials costs there is one thing we can blame for our country's losses...

Americans do not buy American products.  

In that statement we also can realize a solution to our economic woes. Buy locally made products, services and goods and help rebuild our country's economy. If consumers continue to buy cheap imported goods our economy will continue to stumble.  Around the corner is our day set aside to celebrate American Independence so let's each pledge to do our part to support American made products by looking for the Made in USA label on garments and other goods. Show your allegiance and buy better quality goods even if you spend a few dollars more.

Big and Tall Mens Clothing Shop

Where do big men shop for the best clothing and male fashions?

Although the offering for big and tall men are better than ever before, brick-and-mortar stores for larger customers remain rare.  Discerning shoppers find the extra-large clothing they want at online merchants who cater exclusively to their needs.

History of Big Men's Clothing

Historically big and tall men have had few selections in the retail clothing avenues and malls. In fact, it wasn't until post World War II that garment manufacturers elected to do a sizing study to adjust new pattern sizing for the masses. 

At the turn of the twenty-first century, as garment-makers reassessed women’s and girls’ sizes and shapes, adjusting their standards for the new millennium, they still neglected men - and, especially big and tall men.  In the last several years, however, the industry has begun catching-up with consumers; and researchers have found that men are taller, stouter, and generally more muscular than they were sixty years ago so manufacturers decided its time clothes meet the growing market demand.  Among men, “average” used to mean 5’10” and about 180 pounds.  Now, the “average” man measures a little over 6 feet tall, and he tips the scales at just over 200 pounds.  “Medium” sizes fit men at the lowest end of the measurement scale, and XXL no longer works for the nation’s biggest men.  Still, not all stores have kept pace with the trend but Big Mans USA does.

Out of the shadows, Into the fashion spotlight- Clothes for Big Men.

Although a few specialty merchants cater to big and tall men in the nation’s largest cities, and a few of them do a brisk mail-order business, the first retail chain devoted exclusively to big men did not open in the United States until 1991.  Most men found a few “outsized” items in dim corners of the biggest retail and discount stores but that was luck.  They generally found very few styles in very few extra large sizes, and the majority of “haberdashers” could not fit or advise them where to turn to purchase new wardrobe additions.  Major catalog merchants offered more choices and better goods, but most big-and-tall men had to settle for “universal” styles and colors—medium lapels on their jackets, which came only in black, brown, or navy.  Even gray was considered somewhat exotic in big men’s  fashions before now.  Big men could find a few polo shirts and a few dress shirts, usually in drab colors, seldom in the highest quality fabrics but times have changed.

Now, big men are coming into the fashion spotlight.  Leading American clothing designers, especially Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and leading brand names such as Levis, Dickies, and Lee have developed entire clothing lines exclusively designed and tailored for big and tall men, who not only are larger than average but also are proportioned slightly differently from their ordinary friends and colleagues.  Big and tall men now can find all the current styles, colors, fits and finishes in clothing made just for them.  Even more importantly, the best lines of big men’s clothing do not charge extra dollars for extra size and comfort and one online retailer does not even charge for shipping of items. Check out BigMansUSA.com where shipping orders is always free of charge to shoppers – something you will not find anywhere else.