While I agree that midwivery was given an unfair shake, it does not seem to account for the age distribution of deaths represented here. Or am I missing some way midwivery may change outcomes over that long a time...
I repair cars for fun, and do what might best be filed under odd jobs for profit. I live in a rural area, and having a lot of skills puts me in demand. I haven't seen an ide in years and it brings me peace.
Because VR still sucks, and even good VR still messes with sense of proportion. Easier for most just to handle the object. But for complex or impractical to print items, it is a fantastic idea used by most modern engineering companies.
As long as they are decent quality. I have an aquaintance who dresses up for events in cheap terrible suits and he looks like a caracature of a used car salesman. He is genuinely embarrasing to be around, but thinks the attention is positive, because people recodnise him now. Nice guy, but I can't help but think more people need to know, so they don't do the same.
Levi's is pretty much bargain bin quality. Last time I tried them on I tiried 6 same size pairs, all fit vastly different. One had a pocket sewn shut. No qc whatsoever. Its like they gave up.
For an extra $9 you could have bought jeans made in the USA by Buddy Jeans corporation of Mississippi, which in my experience are extremely high quality, instead of Chinese clothes that fall apart instantly but cost 20% less.
A place in Wisconsin makes my work shoes that in the long run are cheaper than imports.
The point of these anecdotes, is I am interested to consider as labor arbitrage and cost of oil and whatever else wipes out the price advantage of foreign imported clothes that used to exist for the last generation or two, if the surviving American clothing manufacturers being somewhat fancier and higher end will result in Americans "soon" wearing generally fancier clothes.
As a concrete example of my theory, currently New Balance Chinese made sneakers are the cheapest thing to slap on your feet. They look ultra casual, usually pretty dirty, and are engineered to fall apart extremely rapidly (for example they recently took the eyelets out of the lace holes to make the laces destroy the plastic fake leather faster). However... over the long term its already cheaper to buy Thorogood dress shoes made in Wisconsin because they last roughly forever and as a side effect look quite stylish in my opinion, and as economic trends continue, its conceivable that soon the cheapest shoes available to slap on your feet will be some rather formal looking Thorogoods, then for an extra $20 you can buy some New Balance from China that fall apart in four months of use. And my theory is we are very close to that tipping point with the result that at least in the short term "average folks who don't care about fashion" will be wearing much less casual, much more formal appearance clothing.
It seems a realistic hypothesis, easily testable, fits prevailing trends...
My wife buys me casual weekend clothes from Nordstroms or Von Maur or whatever and that casual weekend stuff costs more than the cheap generic polos I wear at work. Like a hugo boss shirt that looks nice for weekend wear but costs $100 vs yesterday I wore some generic Target polo to work because we "dress up" at this conservative employer. I've also noticed I can sometimes buy cheap dockers or dockers knockoffs on sale for less than what I pay for weekend wear jeans. So with respect to my hypothesis the future is already here, just unevenly distributed.
I'm old enough that I had to wear the suit and tie to the financial employer in the olden days. Its very comfortable if you spend enough money and suits were quite expensive. The field service techs I tangentially worked with would maliciously comply by purchasing the ugliest used clothes imaginable from Goodwill and throw the suit out at the end of a shift if it got ruined. Its interesting to see the tables turn and my clothes on the weekend cost more than work cloths unlike when I was young.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm always interested in USA made clothing sine there is so little of it anymore, you've already named two makers I'm unfamiliar with. Do you have any others?
Since you asked, time to shill for my favorite socks. (Note: Not affiliated. They've just really won me over because these are the most comfortable socks I've ever owned.)
Darn Tough socks [0], which I discovered via Reddit's /r/buyitforlife, are some of the best socks I've ever owned. They come with a lifetime warranty - so if you get a hole in the sock you can send it in for a brand new pair. No questions asked. Made in Vermont, USA.
Downside: $15-22 for a single pair of socks. I used to pay that much for 20 pairs of cheap socks.
Upside: I only need to own 8 pairs of socks. One a day, one to wear on laundry day.
"Smartwool" (company name) merino wool hiking socks, about the same deal, about the same price, $20/pair, knitted in Colorado. I donno the warranty, they don't break or wear out. Those are the only socks I'll wear when I go hiking.
People who buy $300 hiking boots and wear 50 cent walmart socks in them resulting in blisters and fungus infections, just a big question mark.
I don't understand the economics of those businesses. The Chinese stuff wears out fast, intentionally, and has to be replaced in months so they have a twice per year (or more) revenue stream. Its nice that I can buy shoes from Wisconsin or socks from Colorado that have already lasted many years, or jeans from Mississippi that will probably last my entire lifetime, but I bought it all years ago, and what is their business plan today to stay in business? Yeah they cost a little more, but only a little. I mean, sure, if I had to replace my shoes I'd buy from the Wisconsin place again, but the whole point is I bought them because they don't wear out. And they don't. So how are they still in business for you folks to buy from them today?
There are very expensive US clothing makers, but to fit my hypothesis that its becoming cheaper to buy quality US made products than cheap Chinese products, those expensive textile workers would not apply.
In retrospect it would probably be a short term effect and on shore mfgrs would probably soon start to sell cheap products for a slightly cheaper price, but it might only take that year or two to kick of a change to somewhat more formal styles.
Suppressing when attackers are muslim does not equal equating all muslims with terrorists. Wtf. Lets not censor our news for any reason, nor sensationalize it.
