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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (73173)	4/15/2011 9:28:55 AM
From: alpine_climber	Respond to of 218079

Did you do an 'objective' comparison, woe betide, and may you live a long and interesting life, for a once-in-a-lifetime, top-of-the-line, unbranded, but absoutely-made-in-China tophat?

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (73173)	4/15/2011 9:59:26 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218079

I made the same observation. In Germany you have three tier of stuff you want to buy: clothes and shoes. Low Medium High Between the mid-80s to early 90s I worked in northern Nigeria (Temp. between 24 to 33ª C) very few items of clothing needed. I used to buy clothes once year in Germany since I worked for Munich-based compnay and went there once a year. Stuff needed to be low tier since the house help did not know how to use washing machines. Thus it was a waste to buy any clothing items. Just bought a few items middle tier clothes and shoes. The bulk were boxer shorts, socks, shirts and trousers and was amazed how good cheap stuff and how long they lasted. March 2009, I had a workshop in Munich and decided to buy a few things: (I'm in Angola same situation as Nigeria) I discovered the cheap stuff was no longer good and really crap indeed. The conclusion can be that: what was once low tier is now middle and what was middle is now top tier.