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Charles Peterson's photograph of the Filson factory in Seattle.
It's so hard to find stylish, reasonably-priced clothing that's made by workers in the United States* that most people don't bother trying. A lot of the online resources for American-made clothing and accessories are of the 1980s "Made in the USA" animated GIF ilk, so style blogger Michael Williams of A Continuous Lean and The Material Review compiled an excellent (and sure to expand) list of "stylish and cool brands that make their goods in America." I recommend checking it out:
The American List
*I keep talking about products Made in the USA but my real interest is in products that aren't made by companies that moved their manufacturing to Asia. That is not to say there aren't excellent Asian companies or goods manufactured in Europe that I don't also love. I just find something particularly repugnant about companies like Lands End or Patagonia with long histories of domestic manufacturing or a lot of lip service to environmental issues, but whose catalogs don't contain a single product that's not identified as imported.
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