Thursday, December 11, 2008

Shoes Made in the USA

Recently AW was able to add several American Made Shoe companies to the directory of products made in the USA. It was not an easy feat to do if I say so myself (yes, lame pun intended)

Check them out

SAS Shoes a pretty cool looking company

Ana-Tech Comfort Footwear. Strange Name, Awesome Company!

And they are of course now both on the Shoes Made in the USA page at AW.

Thanks

2 comments:

Matthew - whybuymadeinusa.com said...

Excellent! For more shoes made in the United States, check out the footwear category at WhyBuyMadeInUSA.com

Unknown said...

Thanks for this site. I was looking for a pair of shoes for work and wanted to buy American. Wow, I am appalled by how difficult it is to actually find suitable office-type shoes made in America. We do not seem to have a lot of know-how left about such an age-old craft. A lot of the courageous companies I saw from this site seem to be re-learning the craft of shoemaking, and are making some rudimentary looking slipper-type things using leathercrafting techniques but they are very basic. Yet I plan to support these shoemakers and wear funky-looking slipper-type shoes to work instead of slick pumps that are made in China.

I am interested in supporting American business in other ways, not just by buying products that were manufactured in America. For instance, I think we should support business that provide services without any offshoring. Fast food, technological solutions, etc -- is there any resource for finding out whether non-manufacturing business have offshored ANY of their jobs or laid off workers and then "partnered" with offshore firms? I would like to support business that are free from this behavior. Any help in locating them is much appreciated.