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That would be great. I recommend checking out Rochester Tailored Clothing. As their name suggests, they are based in Rochester, New York. This area used to be a big clothing manufacturing hub in the United States, but like many such hubs, manufacturing jobs have dwindled.
In her autobiography, Living My Life, anarchist Emma Goldman recalled working in one of Rochester’s clothing factories, where she made overcoats. During the years Goldman lived and worked in the city, Hickey Freeman began manufacturing suits there (1899). They were a stalwart of US suit manufacturing up until fairly recently (2023). Management mishandled workers' healthcare and pay, and eventually moved all production to Mexico. Consequently, about 200 people were not only facing unemployment but were also owed money they were unlikely to collect.
Fortunately, this factory was narrowly saved. It is now operating under new management and under the banner of Rochester Tailored Clothing. This is a unionized workforce (Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union). Some people here have been with the company for over fifty years, many of them first-generation immigrants.
The photos below are from a profile The Nation did on them not too long ago.
However, if you're mostly looking to buy a suit, I recommend a few places: J. Press, O'Connell's, American Trench, Paul Stuart, and Martin Greenfield (the last also being a factory). Not all of the suits at J. Press are made in the US, so check the labels. There are also bespoke tailors in this country, such as Chris Despos, Leonard Logsdail, and Ercole, although the first is based in Chicago and the others in NYC.
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It's already been forgotten but like two weeks ago this lady tried to pretend that the DSA mailed her anthrax lol
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remember the media feeding frenzy when i said this?
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If Trump was on the ballot he'd immediately go along with the rigged, stolen, impossible narrative and push it to the hilt, but because he's not and doesn't give a fuck about any person alive other than himself, he won't fight it because he's lazy and doesn't give a shit.
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gossip from sources in R senate campaigns, lots of blame but one theme emerging: the Million Charlie Kirks were a catastrophe. half of them hatched "unsouled" and slid sideways into hell before they could vote; the rest were "webs of blood and tooth" who largely went third-party
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“Is the pope catholic” Well he’s never tweeted sorrowfully about his masturbation habits so I really don’t know!















































