[HN Gopher] Dickies moving its headquarters from Texas to Califo...
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Dickies moving its headquarters from Texas to California
Author : geox
Score : 32 points
Date : 2024-12-07 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| underseacables wrote:
| _The Dickies move will impact about 120 Fort Worth employees._
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| They don't manufacture in America anymore, so good riddance.
| Nothing but a Chinese white-label now.
| cma wrote:
| Why do we want so many garment shop jobs to be done in America?
| Y_Y wrote:
| It builds character
| BadHumans wrote:
| People look at all manufacturing jobs disappearing as part of
| the reason the middle class is dead. Unfortunately, even if
| all of these jobs came back, few people want to pay $70 for a
| made-in-America shirt.
| throwawaymaths wrote:
| hm. i wonder. made in usa plain tees are not that expensive
| (american apparel) and if you mean button up shirt, i paid
| $100 for a shirt made abroad.
|
| i recently bought made in usa undergarments and the quality
| was better than am undergarment i bought from abroad and
| the price was comparable
| kube-system wrote:
| While you can get T-shirts made in USA for reasonable
| prices, there's not a great selection out there, and you
| might want to check to see where those American Apparel
| T-shirts are being made. While they were known in the
| past for being USA made, they heavily outsource now.:
|
| https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Y+xeS+HoL.jpg
| rqtwteye wrote:
| I think people might if they offered good quality. But that
| doesn't seem to be the case with a lot of things "Made in
| USA".
| vineyardmike wrote:
| We probably don't care about these jobs. But the political
| and cultural care over manufacturing jobs is twofold (1)
| manufacturing in America ensured we can sustain ourselves in
| a war with another manufacturing nation (eg china) and (2)
| it's a politically savory thing.
|
| Today, we have pretty low unemployment so jobs isn't as big a
| concern as other times. BUT jobs are not evenly distributed
| across the nation. If you visit the rust belt, those cities
| and towns are losing population as they lose jobs. That makes
| for an angsty population - staying in your hometown means
| fighting over the shrinking job pool. No one really _wants_
| to be a coal-miner or factory worker, but when that was the
| last big employer in your shrinking town, you get nostalgic
| for "good days" of high employment numbers, and a growing
| population.
|
| Garments aren't coming back unless American shopping habits
| change. We've started spending a smaller % of income on
| clothes, while buying more units of clothing per year. That
| favors clothes made by fast fashion under terrible work
| conditions - which will never be local. Unless you want to
| buy a $200 pair of ethically made jeans, you're not getting
| it American.
| fragmede wrote:
| Because it's a job for people who aren't good at math and
| science can do. It's great that people can be doctors and
| chemists and software engineers but people who don't have
| those kinds of smarts to do those things, still need to have
| jobs. UBI ain't happening, so without jobs that don't take an
| advanced degree, the people without them don't have jobs.
| Without a job, how're you going to survive under capitalism?
| medler wrote:
| They've been manufacturing abroad since at least the 1960s.
| HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
| >so good riddance.
|
| They are not leaving the US...?
| mmmBacon wrote:
| https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/20....
|
| Looks like the owner VF Corp is consolidating campuses and
| wanting Dickies to be collocated with Vans in Costa Mesa.
| whalesalad wrote:
| Yeah, nothing to see here. Just your run of the mill corporate
| consolidation. I used to live a few miles from that Vans HQ
| right off the 405.
| Animats wrote:
| Right.
|
| Dickies and Vans were and are both units of VF
| Corporation.[1][2] VF also owns The North Face and Timberland,
| and a bunch of other "lifestyle brands". They have headquarters
| all over the place. VF corporate HQ is Denver. Vans HQ is in
| Costa Mesa, CA. There's a HQ in Shanghai, which manages
| manufacturing. Timberland HQ is in New Hampshire. North Face HQ
| is in Denver. And for some reason, there's an IT unit in
| Greensboro, NC.
|
| Too many HQs. Looks from their job listings like they're
| consolidating apparel in Costa Mesa, except for North Face and
| Timberland.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF_Corporation
|
| [2] https://www.vfc.com/
| danans wrote:
| Despite the fact that they manufacture work-wear, I'd hazard
| to guess that most of the "innovation" - like with any other
| apparel type - is in taste-making and branding rather than
| any improvement in work-wear materials or functionality, and
| the talent pool for taste-making is likely much stronger in
| Southern California than Forth Worth, TX.
|
| The consolidation probably means they'll just add most of the
| Dickies brand workload to the existing employees in Southern
| California rather than hire/transfer 120 workers there. So a
| net reduction in labor costs and elimination of real estate
| costs, despite moving to a higher CoL area.
| tzs wrote:
| Note that this is the Dickies that makes workwear [1], not the
| similar sounding but spelled differently Dickey's BBQ [2] or The
| Dickies band [3][4] who are one of the longest tenured punk rock
| bands having started in 1977 and are still performing.
|
| Of the three the workwear maker is the only one I've never dealt
| with. The BBQ was pretty good several years ago, but I ended up
| just not going for a couple of years, then when I tried to the
| ones nearest me had all closed and the number a medium distance
| from me had greatly diminished and their ratings had tanked.
|
| I've seen the band live twice and both had interesting
| interruptions. The first interruption there was a problem with an
| amp and they had to pause the show while it was fixed. The singer
| walked over to the keyboard and said that to entertain us while
| we waited he would play and named a Bach piece. I don't remember
| what piece it was other than it is one considered to be difficult
| piece, and he played it perfectly.
|
| The second interrupted show was one where the crowd at the front
| of the stage was urging the singer to crowd dive. He asked them
| if he could piss on them instead. They shouted "YES!".
|
| Big mistake. He then stopped singing, the stage crew quickly got
| a spotlight on his crotch, we got to see him unzip and whip it
| out...and he then proceeded to urinate on the people in front.
|
| The show resumed but the people who had been pissed on kept
| trying to get onto stage, and security was having trouble keeping
| them back and the show had to be cut short.
|
| [1] https://www.dickies.com/
|
| [2] https://www.dickeys.com/
|
| [3] http://www.thedickies.com/
|
| [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dickies
| op00to wrote:
| It's also not the top part of a sweater, just to be clear.
| danans wrote:
| > Note that this is the Dickies that makes workwear [1], not
| the similar sounding but spelled differently Dickey's BBQ [2]
| or The Dickies band [3][4] who are one of the longest tenured
| punk rock bands having started in 1977 and are still
| performing.
|
| Why would anyone be confused about this? The first sentence of
| the article reads:
|
| "The workwear apparel brand Dickies is moving its headquarters
| from Texas to California."
| serf wrote:
| I had a The Dickies tshirt that I was banned from wearing in
| public high school.[0]
|
| coincidentally I have also been to a show where the lead
| started pissing on everyone -- but he didn't ask. (Mike V and
| the Rats)..
|
| you'd think that would be uncommon, but maybe it's a so-cal
| punk band tradition. lol
|
| [0]: (it was their band name in the style of a flaccid penis,
| https://i.etsystatic.com/7307138/r/il/58ab4b/3571084842/il_f...
| )
| brink wrote:
| It's funny that a company actually choosing to live in California
| now is so unusual that it sparks a headline and a front-page
| post.
| HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
| > It's funny that a company actually choosing to live in
| California now is so unusual
|
| Says who? California is one of the most desirable places to
| live and work. It's a headline because moving the HQ of a huge
| established corporation is a daunting undertaking and rare
| event.
| jamiek88 wrote:
| Pop your bubble mate
| defart wrote:
| Bit of a Dickies move, if you ask me..
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