JP Marcellino
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- Joined
- Jul 6, 2012
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"leather purist" i think it runs through my veins too.
and Rach what you call pet peeves i call the business of fashion and could probably be said for all mass manufacturing. I know first hand well known manufacturers that cut corners and misinterpret "Made In" labels as it was an everyday occurrence like the mob doing their business.
... and get this, many Italian factories in turn are outsourcing back to china or India. There are items "Made in Italy" for all due purpose are just brokered by that factory while Indian hands actually put it together. Pure Italy is getting just as expensive to manufacture as any European country and America.
Everyone has to get in on the "cheap" game while it lasts with the least amount of physical work and artistic skill. Is there a market for cheap goods? of course. There is a market for everything, including people that want to date people that wear fuzzy Bunny suits. Most people buy first with their wallet, second with their emotions and third with their logic. Here you have supermarkets with a variety of food choices that people CAN make (what actually goes into their bodies), and many "choose" inexpensive poor quality food, same goes with education and forget about fashion.
Why create something of value when you could flood the market with inexpensive items that are just regurgitated over and over? Because it gets you paid. All you have to do is make a couple of photo shop designs and let the Chinese do all the hard work. Well, that is changing too because good Chinese manufacturing is getting expensive, as it should - i think that is what Hong Kong is all about today, among other things.
and Rach what you call pet peeves i call the business of fashion and could probably be said for all mass manufacturing. I know first hand well known manufacturers that cut corners and misinterpret "Made In" labels as it was an everyday occurrence like the mob doing their business.
... and get this, many Italian factories in turn are outsourcing back to china or India. There are items "Made in Italy" for all due purpose are just brokered by that factory while Indian hands actually put it together. Pure Italy is getting just as expensive to manufacture as any European country and America.
Everyone has to get in on the "cheap" game while it lasts with the least amount of physical work and artistic skill. Is there a market for cheap goods? of course. There is a market for everything, including people that want to date people that wear fuzzy Bunny suits. Most people buy first with their wallet, second with their emotions and third with their logic. Here you have supermarkets with a variety of food choices that people CAN make (what actually goes into their bodies), and many "choose" inexpensive poor quality food, same goes with education and forget about fashion.
Why create something of value when you could flood the market with inexpensive items that are just regurgitated over and over? Because it gets you paid. All you have to do is make a couple of photo shop designs and let the Chinese do all the hard work. Well, that is changing too because good Chinese manufacturing is getting expensive, as it should - i think that is what Hong Kong is all about today, among other things.
