Made In USA Jeans:

There Are Still Some Jeans Made In USA

Not so long ago made in usa jeans were quite a common thing on the market. These days however, most of the labels we have grown up with are manufactured in China or some other Asian country. There is only a few companies left that can claim that their products are 100 percent made in USA.

High labor costs are forcing companies to shift their production over seas, in order to cut on the expenses, and textile industry is not an exemption. Although it does help keep the profit margins high, this keeps certain customers away from their brands. There are still people out there who consider "made in USA" label a sign of quality and refuse to settle for anything less.

If you go further down the chain of production, the situation gets even worst. Even if a company does own a factory America, most of the times it uses imported materials or the one made from imported cotton. Some of them use their home factories to just assemble prefabricated parts made in foreign countries. This brings the number of made in usa jeans manufacturers down to a handful. One of those few remaining brands you can get is the one made by prisoners in Oregon. Naturally, all this brings the price for such products high, when compared with jeans made abroad.

Despite it all, there are some jeans that are still made in the United States. Here is a list:

1. All American Clothing  2. Buddy's Jeans  3. Carharrt  4. Certified Jean  5. Texas Jeans

In the older days, American jeans used to mean Wrangler, Levi and Lee. Today, you will find that Levi's are made overseas. Lee and Wrangler brands are owned by VF Corp. And they also own Riders, Chick Jeans and Rustler Brands. While they do have manufacturing plants in the United Stats, they also have them in other parts of the world.

With the current economic crisis, situation for made in usa jeans looks grim. Although, one of the most profitable industries in America, netting 14 billions in 2004, more and more of the manufacturers are looking to move the production abroad. Maybe the day when jeans will no longer be manufactured in the country where it was invented more then hundred years ago is not so far away. One can only hope that customers will continue to demand that their jeans are made in America.