radicaldog
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The point is, made in Italy doesn't necessarily connote quality anymore--it's highly dependent on the specific factory in Italy it's made in, and the quality standards that the brand has when commissioning work to be done at that factory.
Yes. I suppose what I was saying is this. There are three kinds of 'made in Italy'
(a) "I have an expensive designer item"
(b) "I have an item that is of good quality because it is made in a country with some distinctive high-quality manufacturing tradition"
(c) = (a) + (b)
So you're right that, because of (a), 'made in Italy' does not necessarily denote quality any more. But it helps to be precise.