There isn't a day in your life, when you aren't in one form of another wearing clothes, sometimes, in fact, making several clothing changes throughout your day, and almost always without exception, the origin of the clothes that you are blithely wearing are not from America, and haven't been made in America for over a generation, as they are predominantly made overseas in Asian countries, such as China, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. Offhand, there isn't a thing wrong with wearing and purchasing clothes manufactured from overseas, as first of all, your consumer choice in regards to this issue is rather limited, since pretty much all of these various pieces of apparel are predominantly being sold to you from big box stores such as TJ Maxx, or Forever 21, or Marshalls, or WalMart, and so forth, so it isn’t like you are buying your clothes in some underhanded manner.
In fact, clothing appears to be on the surface one of those delightful win-win situations, as it most definitely is a win for the big box retailers, as their cost for product has remained flat for twenty-five years, meaning that they have been able to pass on these savings to consumers throughout America by maintaining insanely low clothing prices on behalf of a nation that loves to shop for clothes. In actuality, the Consumer Price Index for Apparel was at 127.5 in April 1991 and as of FEB 2016 it was at 127.5. This means, that for twenty-five years there has been no inflation in apparel whatsoever, yet there has been inflation in America, as demonstrated by the fact that Consumer Price Index itself was at 135.2 in April 1991 and now rests as of FEB 2016 at 237.11, or an increase of 75%.
This points out again, that it isn't your imagination that the pricing of clothes has remained flat for twenty-five years, a boon to consumers as well as to stores, with consumers able to consistently take advantage of either "everyday low pricing" or the invariable discounted specials which seem to occur at just about every day in some store in America. However, all of this good stuff for cheap has a hidden cost to it, and that is the fact that the clothes being manufactured for our utilization and benefit are being done overseas, and while most Americans pretty much follow the policy of "out of sight, out of mind", there most definitely are human hands in impoverished countries that produce our clothes for cheap, that were these workers in America, would be considered to be exploited.
While on the one hand you can make a strong argument on behalf of the garment manufacturers that their employees are better off in a factory rather than in the outside world of poor rural communities, without real or good access to education, modern amenities, healthcare, or clean water; that argument though is countered by the conditions of these factories which are centered primarily on treating humans as pretty much cheap and replaceable cartel, to which their only true worth is what they can produce and make via quota, period.
The bottom line is that efficient overseas factories utilizing cheap labor can readily produce clothing that undercuts all domestic manufacturing of such, because the labor costs in America are way too steep. This means in practicality that the clothes that we wear each day on our backs in a manner of speaking comes via the sweat of an ill-educated foreign woman's brow.