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What a bunch of BS. The author is ignoring elephant in the room - cost of honestly paid labor and cost of good quality materials. You cant make quality things u
by readhn 7y ago
What a bunch of BS. The author is ignoring elephant in the room - cost of honestly paid labor and cost of good quality materials. You cant make quality things using "slave" labor (made in "3rd world countries" for a few cents/buck an hour). Good stuff is a product of love. There is no love in made in china goods.
The bottom line with clothing these days is that most of it is made using "slave" underpaid labor and more often than not - cheap materials.
If you want quality - you will have to pay up. (and no, if something is super expensive it does not mean its high quality! you have to know what and from who you are buying!)
Case in point mens shoes. A good pair of shoes these days (made with quality materials and using honestly paid labor) - will cost you $200-300-400 and up. (American, British, Italian or Spanish shoe makers) This is basically the floor of the good shoe market today. Thats just the reality. If you want to pay your people honest wages and if you want to make things with quality materials (and im not talking any ultra luxury here, just good every day stuff) - you will have to price your product accordingly. there is no way around it.
You can not talk about quality of anything without discussing people who made the product.
- notfashion 7y agoEven very expensive designer clothing may still be made in exploitative conditions. See https://qz.com/1397139/italian-workers-are-earning-near-sweatshop-wages-to-make-luxury-clothes-in-their-homes/ https://qz.com/1397139/italian-workers-are-earning-near-swea...
- readhn 7y agoas i said "and no, if something is super expensive it does not mean its high quality!" you have to know who you are buying from. yes, majority of big labels these days use cheap outsourced labor. Italy - is importing cheap asian workers, so yes you have to watch out. Basically know who you are buying from. There are plenty of businesses who still value their workers and their products.
- notfashion 7y agoValuing workers is separate from valuing quality. I don't think the article I linked to implies in any way that the exploited workers are doing inferior work.
- rdtwo 7y agoThere is no reason that quality shoes cannot be built in countries with poor labor conditions. It’s just that low labor costs allow for selection of cheaper materials and low pay managers are tempted to cut corners on trivial items.
- readhn 7y ago>There is no reason that quality shoes cannot be built in countries with poor labor conditions. I disagree. when all your workers are thinking about is how they will feed their kids tonight and if they will have enough food or medicine next week - they could care less about your product quality. to produce high quality items, CONSISTENTLY, you have to have multiple factors in place. Certainly, poor labor conditions are working strongly against product quality.