Month: July 2014

The past few weeks working on this blog have been frustrating.  Getting responses from some companies have been like pulling teeth.  I am not asking for any information that some companies post freely on their websites.  I start to wonder if you cannot/will not tell me WHERE your clothes are made then perhaps either a) you don’t know or b)… Read more →

Columbia has been a difficult company to get answers from.  They do not respond very quickly to emails or to twitter.  After months of emails and tweets I finally received an aswer which directed me to thier US site and thier Corporate Responsibility page.  The page has none of the infomation I am looking for.  I have sent yet another… Read more →

I started by contacting Old Navy because that was where our family shopped the most.  I had to tweet repeatedly to get a response as any emails were met with silence.  I was eventually forwarded on to the Gap and their social responsibility account. The Gap’s website does provide a detialed account of their social responsibility here:  http://gapinc.com/content/gapinc/html/social_responsibility.html However, the… Read more →

Nine West has nothing that I can find about how or where their products are made.  After sending them a list of questions I have only been able to find out that “our products are manufactured in China”  but that they were “unable to provide answers to your additional questions.”  I asked that my In other words, while it may… Read more →

I have emailed and tweeted at the Carters for several months to no avail.  They are the parent company so I assumed they would be the best source for listing their social responsibilty information and contacting for information.  As it turns out, much of the information I was looking for was posted on the OSH KOSH website.  So now I… Read more →