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Shame of you for thinking other companies not using child slaves.
Wait till they hear about chocolate
I switched to Tony’s chocolate years ago, I was heartbroken to hear even that doesn’t guarantee that chocolate is free from slave labour 😔
My take: Pretty much all clothing is outrageously cheap. Temu etc are just doubly so.
We all own pretty crazy amounts of clothing, and don’t even think about how excessive that is because it costs us barely anything.
Yeah, hearing stats about the average amount of times an article of clothing is worn in the west (which is somewhere between 7 and 10 times) is insane to me. I usually wear things until the fabric is too tired and fragile to be patched up, which is typically hundreds of times and many dozens of washes. My favorite pair of trousers has been going strong for definitely more than a thousand days of intense use, including hiking and other sports; they are close to giving up but still not quite there yet.
The mindset of buying clothes (or boots) to wear them less than a hundred times before discarding is just beyond me, and I’m way above the poverty line. From what I hear there are people who never wash some of their clothing categories (e.g. underwear), just throwing them out when they get dirty, and it drives me mad.
Like, some poor person was paid $2 per day or so to saw this in the heat of SE Asian summer, then it was shipped half way across the planet to you, and you throw all this effort away because “it’s out of fashion” or “it has a small hole in it”? Really?
somewhere between 7 and 10 times
Lol, I wear my jeans 7 to 10 times before I wash them…
You are implying that other discount companies don’t use the same sources. I’d have to see evidence of that before I bought into your message.
Most cheap clothing is fragile and unethically made. Even more expensive stuff is a risk, but nothing good comes from rock bottom prices
