Sweat Shops

WindSock

Would you carry on paying for cheap clothes even if you knew they were using child labour to make them? I would.

Electric

Yeah I probably would.

This one I work with had a go at me for getting shorts and stuff for my hols in Penney's but as I told her it's not just the cheaper places that get their stuff made in sweat shops you can bet that the higher end stuff do the same.

In the end it's about the bottom line and clothes manufacturers will go with the cheapest alternative.

LadyMayBelle

Yup. Had a look at the tags on the clothes Im wearing and they are all made in Vietnam/Thailand etc...what can I do? I can't afford a those 'ethical clothes' Ali Hewson etc sell, and I know the workers get paid feck all for what I'm wearing but what's the alternative right now? As said, the bottom line is that manufacturers go for the cheapest option..

flynnser19

working in river island is like working in a sweat shop i can tell ya!!lol

but seriously, i think all high street shops use sweat shops to make their close its a fact of life and there's nto alot that can be done. You campaign to shut one down and it opens up else where or the people go to another one and work there!!!its a vicious circleim afraid!!

Pythia

Yep.

Laura Appleby

Hi guys, this one chick i shop for is kinda a hippy and shes always going on about this kind of stuff to me. she won't let me get her any clothes that kids make. I just buy them anyway and cut off the tags so she doesn't know. See the thing is that the kids are actually really good sewers some of the stuff made in europe is just not as well finished. they are actually highly skilled workers

I thought so until I heard these people are getting a lung disease caused by breathing in the materials in the dust from rhinestones.

My grandfather died from that disease at the age of 39, he contracted it from the working conditions in the coal mine where he worked.

I'm not comfortable contributing to situations like that in this day and age.

MAKE MY DAY

Laura Appleby wrote: »

Hi guys, this one chick i shop for is kinda a hippy and shes always going on about this kind of stuff to me. she won't let me get her any clothes that kids make. I just buy them anyway and cut off the tags so she doesn't know. See the thing is that the kids are actually really good sewers some of the stuff made in europe is just not as well finished. they are actually highly skilled workers

Are you for real ? On another thread you claim to have a BA Hons degree and work in image consultancy and that your Jimmy Choos are overpriced etc at €500 .I think your clients would love to know that you are ripping them off by cutting off the tags of cheaper clothing etc... and passing them off as something that they are not .

Laura Appleby

MAKE MY DAY wrote: »

Are you for real ? On another thread you claim to have a BA Hons degree and work in image consultancy and that your Jimmy Choos are overpriced etc at €500 .I think your clients would love to know that you are ripping them off by cutting off the tags of cheaper clothing etc... and passing them off as something that they are not .

they are not cheap they are just made in asia

MAKE MY DAY

I think the point is they are made by children