hm. i wonder. made in usa plain tees are not that expensive (american apparel) and if you mean button up shirt, i paid $100 for a shirt made abroad.

i recently bought made in usa undergarments and the quality was better than am undergarment i bought from abroad and the price was comparable

While you can get T-shirts made in USA for reasonable prices, there's not a great selection out there, and you might want to check to see where those American Apparel T-shirts are being made. While they were known in the past for being USA made, they heavily outsource now.:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Y+xeS+HoL.jpg

I think people might if they offered good quality. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with a lot of things “Made in USA”.

in the 1970s or 1980s if a nice dress shirt was $10-15, then it's not entirely a different thing from $70-100 today.

it's not a question of "want to pay $70", we'll want to pay the lowest price possible for the equal goods. if the cost of shirts doubled, you might buy less of them and wear them longer. i remember my dad probably had 5 nice dress shirts, two suits and a sport coat.

i'd rather have $70 (or $100) shirts and a functioning middle class.