Why I Ditched Local Retail and Started Buying from China (and You Should Too) It was a rainy Tuesday in Brooklyn, and I was staring at a $180 cashmere sweater in a boutique window. It was beautiful—soft, cream-colored, the kind of piece you could wear with jeans or a silk skirt. But I knew, deep down, that same sweater, made in the same factory, was selling for $35 on Taobao. That moment changed everything for me. I walked away from the window, went home, and placed my first order for a batch of cashmere directly from a Chinese supplier. That was three years ago. Since then, I’ve become something of…