About 6 or 7 years ago Hathaway shirts were still being made by Ike Behar/Cline at a plant in Prescott, Ontario. Now the Prescott location is reduced to a defunct "factory" outlet, with product from a factory in Guelph, Ontario, I think.

I'd rather we had bailed out Hathaway than a bunch of banks and insurance companies.

I've Hathaway made for Press or Press made by Hathaway (probably the latter I think) according to misterman from the mid 80's. Lovely stuff! Imported End-on-End, 3 button BD, flap pocket. Real class!

J.

OK: I wear shirts until the cuffs are unspeakable. I still have a Hathaway shirt with frayed cuffs and I have what I know is a Press Hathaway shirt from many years ago from last year when they gave away a bunch of old stock.
      But the issue is a large one. Are we better off having a large industrial base. Or must we export are industries to the cheapest bidder? I still think we need to make things like American cars. Better management and a pittance compared to what the banks got would go a long long way.
     (Fair disclosure: I own a fair number of Ford shares bought way above today's closing price. I don't think the Family will let the company drown. As I understand it the family will have the final say about bankruptcy. they are in much better shape than GM. don't understand why the stock is lower than GMs).

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I know that is the talk on Wall Street. But I still love American cars. I drive a Buick Lucern. I would match it up against any so called japanese luxury car. But I don't want to live in an America that doesn't produce American cars.
     I think we can kick Asian ass five ways from Sunday producing cars. All those people do is imitate what we do. Ask anyone in China.
      The unions are what they are. These days they are extremely sophisticated about American industry. The managers chose the SUVs.
      I think Mr. Mullaly has a better grasp of the industry than most.
     Mark: these companies are coming back. they just have to get beyond 2010. The demographics of the retirees work in their favor after that. And they can still design cars that every American boy lusts after. Can you say Cadillac CTS? (the Japanese have made an industry by appealing to American women. They are the masters of the boring automobile) Get back to me when they invent an original car.

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Let's take it over and ask Anne to be our Hathaway brand ambassador!

That would have been the early 1990s. They were owned by a conglomerate that went bankrupt. I owned the stock so I think I have blocked out the name from memory. They did try to move back up at the end when they were owned by series of much smaller owners, some of them local. At the end the shirts were quite decent. I always tried to look for them but it became harder and harder to find them. The answer is more complicated than just losing quality.

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