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#1 2008-12-12 04:41:37
- Kingstonian
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Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/crisis-in-the-cradle-of-chinese-capitalism-1062910.html
I had never heard of it - not a name that features much on clothing forums.
#2 2008-12-12 06:00:45
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
I checked,
I am quite sure my shoes are not part of this 40 percent. Given the picture that went along with that article, I am also quite sure there is only a very small likelihood I will ever fall in that 40 percent.
7 series BMW in China? What would Chairman Mao think of that?
#3 2008-12-12 06:29:00
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
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#4 2008-12-12 06:43:22
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
l checked out some Chinese made shoes the other week. l couldn't believe my eyes. There was a synthetic lining, synthetic white sole (made to look like leather 
), synthetic upper, and fake stitching around the sides to poorly resemble a goodyear welted shoo. l had a look at one bicycle-toe square-toe vinyl loafer and pulled at the synthetic insole (testing the quality : alas..l ripped the insole out by accident: with another shoe l almost ripped the rubber sole entirely off. l thought, 'oh well...serve the owners right for trying to hoodwink the public by selling such shit'. After that....l threw the ruined Chinese vinyl rubber sole loafers behind the shoo rack like a piece of trash haha. 
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#6 2008-12-12 08:57:00
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
This reminds me of an article I read a year or two ago about the Chinese cracking down on counterfeiters. One man who had been passing off some home-brewed garbage as Hennessy cognac attempted to defended himself by claiming that he tried to make it taste as close to the real thing as possible.
Perhaps the peasants making these plastic shoos think they're indistinguishable from the best available from Italy and England.
#7 2008-12-12 13:49:58
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
Chinese shoes are the perfect complement to Chinese suits from Kilgour, Henry Poole, Chan etc.
Edited to add - I heard that Berluti shoes are made in China.
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#8 2008-12-12 14:08:07
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#9 2008-12-12 20:29:09
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
If you believed the claims of growth you will believe that the economy is still growing. Please look at the reports about monthly imports of oil. When the USA catches a recession (we hope), China catches pnemonia. The Chinese figures about GDP are a fraud. We don't need to hang the lawyers. we do need to hang the accountants.
#10 2008-12-13 06:56:52
- Kingstonian
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
egbert I am not sure exactly what you are saying. It seems to be a spin on the idea that China needs the USA as an outlet for its produce so much that it cannnot look too hard at how the US pays for it.
If that is what you are saying, then the structure was fundamentally unsound. Shifts in power do not occur smoothly.
#11 2008-12-13 07:01:14
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Re: Forty per cent of world's shoes made in Wenzhou
Interesting to me that most posts have been decrying Chinese quality and pledging never to buy the stuff.
I assume the 40% is trainers or trainer-style footwear. If the percentage is to expand the Chinese may need to address the better quality leather shoe sector at some point. India produces leather shoes so presumably China is doing so after a fashion.
#12 2008-12-13 09:10:31
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