After exploring their options, the classic, and very spendy Burberry line realized it’s cheaper to outsource labor, and are closing their factory in Wales (in operation since 1939), taking 300 jobs with it. Says the line’s director of commercial affairs, Michael Mahoney, “We found the costs of producing offshore were substantially lower than the costs in Wales. In fact, they were less than half,” he said. “Obviously, no one ever wants to walk into work in the morning and close a factory employing 300 people. But we had to act upon what we’d found.”

I know how he feels. I find the cost of buying original clothing from small, highly skilled designers—even ones who live in the very same city I do, and even when I have them custom-made over the course of several fittings with the designer themself—to be less than half as expensive than if I take out a loan to by something off the rack from Burberry that was outsourced by a corporation to be made and sold to those who think style is a name and a signature tartan. Obviously, no one likes to log into their online bank account in the morning and find their savings have dwindled to $3. That’s why one has to act upon common sense!

Trench, Burberry, priced at $2,995 on net-a-porter. Good thing their inventory will be less expensive once they’ve saved all that money by outsourcing offshore.