Why I’ve Stopped Apologizing for Buying Chinese Products I still remember the first time I ordered something from China. It was 2018, and I was a broke college student in Austin, Texas, staring at a pair of combat boots on Taobao that cost less than my weekly coffee budget. They arrived three weeks later in a bag that looked like it had been through a war, but the boots themselves? Perfect. Six years and probably a hundred orders later, I’m no longer that hesitant student. I’m a full-time fashion writer and vintage curator based in Portland, Oregon, and buying from China has become a deliberate part of my personal style…