covidquestions@carhartt.com

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
I've been wearing Carhart stuff for over 40 years. My jacket & my old bibs still have Made In USA labels, but I looked on their website & they only make three products in the US anymore- Two jackets & one style of pants. Carhart can't have that many employees left in the US, except for management.

Their statement must have been to impress the woke Bruce Springsteen, and hipster types, who like to be seen wearing Carhart clothes, but run the other way when it comes time to do Carhart stuff- like work.

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Originally posted by VBVAGUY:
***SEND*** Them a message like I did to "Please reconsider"

https://www.carhartt.com/contact-us


Maybe they will listen to their customers and reverse. We can try. God Bless !!!

Done. Not like they care or anything.

That's too bad. I knew Carhartt off-shored much of the their products about 20-years ago which disappointed many now, shitting on the everyday user, simply reveals who their executives are.

As for Carhartt chasing hipsters....Carhartt is the original non-fashion brand to chase the fashion/ironic market. Their WIP label has been in existence for 30+ years marketed as street-wear. Go to Europe and regular Carhartt is viewed as a fashion brand, same as Champion athletic wear; jackets, beanies and sweatshirts are all stacked-up alongside Timberland boots and Nike SB shoes. Its that causal slice of Americana that the kids there all want.

Alternative workwear brands that haven't mandated will be far and few between: VF owns Dickies along with Timberland PRO and Kodiak, their employee deadline was in early Jan. Red Cap, Walls, Bulwark, and a few others are former VF brands sold to a VC firm...not sure on their requirements.

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Alternative workwear brands that haven't mandated will be far and few between:

From the comments here, it seems that there's a demand for quality workwear, made in the USA, without the 'woke' politics.

You know brands and marketing far better than I do. But where there's a demand for a product, it creates opportunity. Someone usually starts a business to fill the demand.

Somebody please tell me: Is there any decent quality every day casual or work wear, like khakis, polo shirts, pocket T-shirts, cargo shorts, etc., that is

good quality,

made in the U.S.A., or at least not in China,

sold by a company that is either non-political or has conservative values,

affordable, and

available in TALL sizes?

Tell me where to find this, and I will become a customer.

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Dungarees (jeans).
https://www.kcjacks.com/collections/dungarees
Seems like they have an opportunity to expand the offering.

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Would you mind sharing those Scandinavian sources?

I like Fjallraven and Faceline who imports Bjornklader. You won't really find another pair of pants like them in the US.

I bet thus has more to do with being able to find enough vaccinated workers to keep all their stores staffed than anything ideological.

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Originally posted by Tirod:
In News You Can't Make Up: Starbucks cancels their vaccine mandate:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...-biden-osha-mandate/

The soy latte crowd backs off, the American Workwear for Real Men goes woke.

Ya just can't make this stuff up.

In further news, it's reported on social media that disgruntled Carhartt owners are protesting corporate support of the vaxx mandate by sending back their clothing under the money back guarantee.

I'm betting that nobody in Corporate there ever wore the garments or worked their way up from the plant floor. Convince me I'm wrong.

Thanks for the information. I contacted them and expressed my concern over their policies.

I'm so tempted to not jump in and contact them, but that's ultimately part of the problem.

A spontaneous conclusion that has hit me in the face a few months ago is that businesses and government will be technically fine with a person cutting a fetus out of existence, but they aren't ok with a person choosing to NOT get vaccinated. Talk about one hell of a double standard.

Hopefully our efforts make a difference with Carhartt. Maybe they're more interested in government contracts than retail purchases.

I have been buying their heavy hooded winter jackets for probably
30 years. I get 3-4 years out of them driving my truck. I've
probably got 5 or 6 old ones in my garage. Keep them in case I need to crawl
underneath my car to fix something in January with snow on the ground.

I’ve got a few items I’m going to stuff into a flat rate box and send to their corporate mailing address. Not looking for any money back.

Some stuff not even worn. Just telling them they lost a customer.

I was recently in a Dick's Sporting Goods, (this was a work visit, seeing what they're carrying and how they're displaying things), and there on one of their feature tables was a big stack of Carhartt sweatshirts. No I'm not talking about a bunch of safety yellow and orange hoodies but, a variety of quite fashionable and trendy colored hoodies with a stylized Carhartt logo.

Like Yeti and others, these brands are chasing trends and fashion by attempting to pull-in a 'mainstream', 'younger', through mass market, price-sensitive retailers, while simultaneously turning-off and possibly insulting the core customer who helped build the brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Carhartt will be found at Urban Outfitters, PacSun or Tilly's

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Originally posted by corsair:
I was recently in a Dick's Sporting Goods, (this was a work visit, seeing what they're carrying and how they're displaying things), and there on one of their feature tables was a big stack of Carhartt sweatshirts. No I'm not talking about a bunch of safety yellow and orange hoodies but, a variety of quite fashionable and trendy colored hoodies with a stylized Carhartt logo.

Like Yeti and others, these brands are chasing trends and fashion by attempting to pull-in a 'mainstream', 'younger', through mass market, price-sensitive retailers, while simultaneously turning-off and possibly insulting the core customer who helped build the brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Carhartt will be found at Urban Outfitters, PacSun or Tilly's

You must have missed it. We all stopped supporting Dicks a long time ago. We never have noticed their Carhartt stock because we don’t go there anymore.

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Originally posted by frayedends:

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Originally posted by corsair:
I was recently in a Dick's Sporting Goods, (this was a work visit, seeing what they're carrying and how they're displaying things), and there on one of their feature tables was a big stack of Carhartt sweatshirts. No I'm not talking about a bunch of safety yellow and orange hoodies but, a variety of quite fashionable and trendy colored hoodies with a stylized Carhartt logo.

Like Yeti and others, these brands are chasing trends and fashion by attempting to pull-in a 'mainstream', 'younger', through mass market, price-sensitive retailers, while simultaneously turning-off and possibly insulting the core customer who helped build the brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Carhartt will be found at Urban Outfitters, PacSun or Tilly's

You must have missed it. We all stopped supporting Dicks a long time ago. We never have noticed their Carhartt stock because we don’t go there anymore.

Never said I was shopping...

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Originally posted by corsair:

Like Yeti and others, these brands are chasing trends and fashion by attempting to pull-in a 'mainstream', 'younger', through mass market, price-sensitive retailers, while simultaneously turning-off and possibly insulting the core customer who helped build the brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Carhartt will be found at Urban Outfitters, PacSun or Tilly's

They look at these outreach customers as being additive to their overall revenue and market share, but I'm not sure how it works out in the long run when they implement policies that offend their core customers. You need to sell a lot of hats and hoodies to replace losing the blue collar working class.

I sent them a good bye note.

I've used Carhartt duck hooded jackets for boatloads of years, primarily for cold season ranch work. My oldest one gave up the ghost last month. I snagged a branch with my arm while thinning trees with a chainsaw, irreparably tearing the jacket's sleeve. Probably got 15 years use from that jacket -- it was looking worse for the wear in many places.

Bought a similar Carhartt jacket a couple of weeks ago, used it for the first time last weekend while thinning storm-damaged trees. Nice jacket, it's at least equal to the old one that I tossed.