{"id":987,"date":"2007-08-19T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2007-11-17T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:00:48","slug":"sweatshop-free-dress-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Sweatshop-free dress shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden, my dress shirts are wearing out. I bought these shirts six or seven years ago from Land&#8217;s End, so I automatically went back to Land&#8217;s End and looked at their Web site. The same shirt costs the same as it did six or seven eyars ago, about US$25. In fact, I remember that same shirt costing about $25 twenty years ago. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/westegg.com\/inflation\/\">The Inflation Calculator<\/a>, &#8220;What cost $25 in 1987 would cost $44.31 in 2006.&#8221; That suggests to me that these days, these shirts are now made overseas by workers who earn just a pittance for their work.<\/p>\n<p>My conscience held me back from ordering shirts from Land&#8217;s End. I did a Web search for &#8220;union made shirts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I happened to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceclothing.com\/thereis\/justice\/\">Justice Clothing<\/a>, which supplies union-made clothing as &#8220;the sweatshop-free alternative.&#8221; They carry two lines of dress shirts. They carry Kenneth Gordon shirts, based in New Orleans, with a nice button-down shirt selling for US$56.25 each if you buy two or more &#8212; unfortunately there was nothing in my sleeve length. Fortunately, Justice Clothing also carry shirts by Forsyth of Canada, who make a line of tall sizes &#8212; blended fabric button-down shirts for US$40 each, and 100% cotton straight collar shirts for US$53 each (for two or more).<\/p>\n<p>Just thought someone else out there might like to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden, my dress shirts are wearing out. I bought these shirts six or seven years ago from Land&#8217;s End, so I automatically went back to Land&#8217;s End and looked at their Web site. The same shirt costs the same as it did six or seven eyars ago, about US$25. In fact, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}