If you buy Reeboks in the USA or UK, they are made in a gigantic chinese factory, with incredibly expensive high tech equipment, and incredibly low paid chinese teenage assembly workers, knocking em out. Douggan Elegant Top Shoes, most likely.
http://chinalaborwat...roshow-112.html
mostly girls aged 18 to 25, gluing and stitching.
However, due to the quantity, and the low government oversight, they can actually make pretty good shoes pretty cheaply- laser cutting soles, for example, using high frequency presses to activate the adhesives, and buying materials by the ton, so they can get exactly the right materials at very low prices.
In Argentina, by contrast, there are a few injection molding shops that make shoe soles, with high priced imported materials- so they dont have the choice of materials, or the quality, and especially, the price, that the chinese do.
A mass produced, low cost, technically difficult shoe like a trainer would be a particularly lousy choice to buy in Argentina. They dont have the volume, or the government support, to make them right, much less cheap.
However, shoes that are higher design, better materials (leather, for example) and made in limited numbers by workers who are paid more and care more, are very good values in Argentina.
There is NOTHING coming from China that is even remotely competitive with Correa, for example.
And, compared to what similar shoes would cost in the UK or the USA, they are probably ten percent of the price.
http://www.calzadoscorrea.com.ar/
another argentine shoe maker I really like is Agua Patagonia- again, more unique designs, better craftsmanship, and good quality- both my wife and I have pairs we have worn for up to five years, they wear very well, and, compared to similar all leather high design shoes you would find at someplace like nordstrom, they are half the price or less.
https://www.facebook...na/168817073648
I usually buy them on sale, so I have often paid $100 US or less for a pair- I would say some of mine are quite comparable to Fluevogs, which I also own 5 pairs of (I am a bit of shoe whore) and they cost about 1/3 the price of Fluevogs these days.
I have a pair of Swordfish Fluevogs- they retail for just below $300. (got mine on sale several years ago for about half that)
I have a couple of pairs of similar pointy toed AguaPatagonias- I paid just over $100 US each for them, one pair at a store on Defensa in San Telmo, another pair at a shoe store on Corrientes in Once.
I bring up these two examples because they are, again, cases where high quality, well designed Argentine products are much LESS expensive than similar things in the US or europe.
I could go on at length, there are many more examples of similar items in Argentina.
What there isnt, is rock bottom, lowest common denominator, chinese, pakistani, or vietnamese, disposable consumer goods at giveaway prices.
