Denim Designer Maurice Malone Explains who Controls the Future of American Garment Manufacturing and Why Manufacturing has Moved Overseas

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Denim designer Maurice Malone of Williamsburg Garment Company (WGC), an American denim brand manufacturing in the U.S., believes the U.S. garment manufacturing industry is poised for growth driven by small to mid-sized brands. WGC is ambitiously doing its part to drive American infrastructure as it expands into manufacturing its own knit products and establishing a manufacturing line for others to utilize.

Why has manufacturing moved overseas

"Automation and foreign production didn't erode the American garment manufacturing industry, we did it to ourselves," says Malone, 30-year veteran of clothing design and production. "The goal of corporations is to maximize profits for investors.  Contrast this against the Chinese philosophy of keeping people working by choosing larger volumes for smaller margins while sacrificing higher profit per piece."

Why has manufacturing moved overseas? Americans almost always choose to buy cheaper over buying American, which is why American producers not claiming the luxury sector must find ways to steamline the production process and offer a better product at competitive prices – as is the WGC goal.

Americans almost always choose to buy cheaper over buying American

As consumers seek lower cost products, companies move production to lower cost areas to stay competitive. This happens even if people want to see products made in America. In economics, they use the multiplier effect to measure the circular flow of money and spending in a community. Money that is earned flows from one person to the other. From the factory workers' paycheck, to the businesses where they shop and into paychecks of employees at those businesses. The output becomes larger than the input. Conversely, when a factory closes its doors, less money is spent in the surrounding community reducing output from surrounding businesses. It all starts with the consumer's decision to buy American or buy cheaper.

Aiming to reverse the snowball effect, we believe that starting small and developing our own production chains within the United States will help reverse the outflow. For consumers, our goal as manufactures must be to produce reasonably priced, completive goods. Unlike those who find it convenient to say, you can't make that in the United States, I believe in "where there's a will, there's a way." As we grow, we intend to be part of building a stronger supply chain.

Large companies could easily manufacture using their own or even cooperative U.S. facilities but in corporate America, where its often profit over people, this is unlikely. The rebuilding of American manufacturing has already begun thanks to small companies like WGC. "It's an uphill battle but we believe in becoming our slogan, The world's favorite American denim brand."

For more information read the full blog content:

https://madeinusajeans.us/raw-denim-blog/denim-designer-maurice-malone-explains-who-controls-the-future-of-american-garment-manufacturing-and-why-manufacturing-has-moved-overseas/

Media contact:
Maurice Malone
[email protected] 
646-367-1720

SOURCE Williamsburg Garment Company