furmeour :
Same! I have a green marble dining table. If I’d bought it from suppliers in my country, it would have cost €7,300. Instead, I had it custom-made by a manufacturer in China for €3,200, including shipping. It took just 10 days to get here.
I hate that people associate China with cheap, low-quality products. Of course, if you go looking for the cheapest, lowest-quality stuff, you’ll find it, but that’s true anywhere. China produces at pretty much every level of quality you just have to be willing to pay for it.
Especially when it comes to clothing. We moved so much of our manufacturing there, which gave them years to perfect their tailoring skills and develop manufacturing technologies that we either don’t have anymore or have simply forgotten how to use.
I love trousers, and my €420 trousers from a Chinese brand are better made and use better-quality materials than my €1,200 YSL trousers.
2026-09-26 08:34:25