Isn't that pretty much all of clothing manufacturing?
Shoes: New Balance 990v4 (USA). Socks: Darn Tough (USA). Jeans: Texas Jeans (USA). Undershirt: Sloane (USA). Underpants: Duckworth (USA). Shirt: Gitman (USA).
The only non-US things I own tend to be shoes (Italy, Spain) and jackets (UK). Or gifts.
YES it does cost more. But here's the thing: I have fewer, nicer, things that last longer and I almost certainly spend way less annually than someone buying $7 shirts from Shein or Walmart clothes.
So, buying trash made of the worst possible materials by slave labor is a choice unless you are the poorest of the poor in which case you, and only you, get a pass.
A single digit percentage of Americans.
Keep on making excuses.
If everyone who didn't make minimum wage spent more consciously instead of just gulping down cheap Chinese goods like a hungry hungry hippo eats marbles and shopped locally economies of scale would make higher quality products available to everyone.
I don't participate in races to the bottom.
Your comment just proved my point.
Saying it's just 'utter garbage' is to simple.
That feels like a rude stereotyping that is dismissive of the buyers. Maybe not your thing but no need to get judgy about it. The buyers know what they are getting.
They choose to buy Shein for their own reasons - a good practice is to assume people have good reasons (maybe other reasons than the quality or reasons that you don't understand).
As you say, "people know what they are getting", and that's fine.
I really don't understand some people's choices, but that's why it's interesting!
https://en.adererror.com/product/sig-trs-tag-hoodie-zip-up-0...
A hoodie like this could last you 10 years easily if you took care of it, made in South Korea, tripe weight cotton.
A cheap Temu hoodie, by comparison, would need to make it a single year, maybe only 6–8 months, to have equivalent lifespan / $. (If priced at $25, or like $15.)