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Re: OK, I admit it -- jfm
| Posted by Downtown Brown ® , Sep 19,2003,14:28 |
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The children of the third world are some fine seamsters. I'm wearing one of my favorite Sri Lankan-made Wal-Mart short-sleeve shirts at the moment.
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| Posted by zilla ® , Sep 22,2003,08:26 |
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When I worked in Indonesia I got a chance to meet some Indonesian workers for Nike. Even though their wage was horifically low by U.S. standards, they were living well beyond the average level of most folks there. Nike even paid for some folks to take classes, etc.Having always been told NIKE pays their workers sheet (which, is true) they were still paying them better than their fellow countrymen/women would pay them.
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| Posted by Jester_Fermaggio ® , Sep 19,2003,13:36 |
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Oh. Here I thought someone was finally admitting to my post below. You know, about riding the old person scooters.
I buy my clothes at the Salvation Army Family store. Sure I look like Ralph Furly, but my conscience is clear.
May Sally Struthers haunt you in your dreams.
my main fashion headquarters
Re: OK, I admit it -- Jester_Fermaggio
The American Legion for the Blind Thrift Store out North Broadway. Or just simply the Blind Thrift. High quality shirts, 25 cents. Shoes, jeans, suits, any damn thing. I found a pair of 6inch platform big pimp stacks there that I wore for years and years. Especially when performing with my other favorite band CORNHOLE.
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| Posted by hi top ® , Sep 19,2003,12:53 |
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Yeah, their stuff is comfy. Unfortunately, you're right. It is made by some 6 year old in Bangladesh, or Malaysia, or some other country our company, uh country, is exploiting. But damn, they are comfy clothes. You'd think for the price of labor the clothes would be a little cheaper, though. Do you at least feel a little better for admitting it. Admitting the problem is the first step of recovery.
--modified at Fri, Sep 19, 2003, 12:54:32
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| Posted by jfm ® , Sep 19,2003,14:14 |
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It's a problem with clothing. I mean, even stuff with a "Made in the USA" tag could easily come from a sweatshop. There are still plenty of them here in New York and in San Francisco and L.A. They get busted periodically, and I suppose they're not quite as bad as they used to be, but in a lot of ways the textile business operates like it did 100 years ago.And yeah, 15 bucks for a T-shirt is pricey when you figure what the cost of labor must be. (The one I have on right now was made in the Mariana Islands.) I think the only long-term solution is some labeling laws. You don't need to ban sweatshop products -- in fact, it would be impossible -- but if you forced companies to explicitly state where something was made and the labor conditions in the factory, that might help guilt both consumers and producers into making things better. You have to make it a competitive advantage for one company to be able to say, "No Sweatshop Labor" on its tags.
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| Posted by Scott ® , Sep 20,2003,01:11 |
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I'm currently wearing a good old Southern Culture on the Skids t-shirt bought at a show in Nebraska with the word Hillbilly emblazoned accross the front, it's a Hanes doesn't say were it's made.
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