Fashion and textile production is returning to the US.

What once appeared to be a trend of bringing major manufacturing operations back to the United States, as a stopgap measure to mitigate complications arising from the pandemic economy, is now seen as a wise long term strategy guaranteeing operational viability, resiliency and value.

While high labor costs have long been used to justify offshore production, volatile supply chains, shipping complications and costs, tariffs, perceived sociopolitical instability, and other factors — including the proliferation of automation technologies that necessitate fewer laborers to operate in general — have made reshoring to North America a practical, profitable, and safer proposition.

The economics of bringing production closer to the end consumer — immediately delivery that negates the need for vast and vulnerable supply chains, the ability to react to demand in real time, the eco-friendly aspect of a streamlined process, and the mitigation of troublesome external factors in general — has become attractive.

Manufacturers prefer to base their businesses in the US, even in highly regulated and high-cost regions that would not appear to be logical production sites.One of the greatest attributes of localized, on-demand fashion and textile production models is that the strategy is entirely modular. It can be replicated to mitigate risk, foster operational agility and versatility, and deliver profitability anywhere.