>>She's designing uniforms for wall builders.

Yes, very funny!

FWIW, high store retailed "exclusive" brands can be immensely profitable these days after most production was exported. Clothes purporting to be exclusively designed and labeled, often are manufactured in China from option books, to be sold as premier couture for 1000% profit. I discovered this after seeing "exclusive" brands in one market reproduced almost identically in another, differing only in style of sole, which I now know means that the "designer" ticked a different option. These goods have production costs of well under $10 but are sold for $140, creating a massive profit. Having her brand dropped by Nordstrom would hit her bottom line, but it might have avoided massive wailing and protest if she just shrugged it off. Maybe she did until Dad intervened.