Li Guilian is the woman in charge of making those non-American American Olympic uniforms, and she just can't understand why we're all so mad that Ralph Lauren's makers are Chinese—especially since China gives us such wonderful cheap products.
After pressure came from as far up the ladder as Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Ralph Lauren announced Friday evening the U.S. Olympic uniforms for the 2012 Winter games in Sochi, Russia will be made in the good ol' U.S.A.
It's not Ralph Lauren's silly berets or the double-breasted jackets, which the U.S. athletes will don during the opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games, that are rubbing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi the wrong way. It's the fact that they weren't American made.
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