Most of us don't know, or don't want to accept the scale of abuse, but fast fashion is one of the most exploitative industries out there.
You can expect most high street brands to have all of their cruelty covered by a sheath of cheap clothes.
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Fast fashion brands often look overseas to countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan and India, plainly because it's much easier to exploit workers when they live in poverty.
Most of them are women earning less than $3 per day.
The owners of the factories in these countries need their businesses so badly that brands can squeeze what they pay them as far as possible, to make their clothes as cheap as possible for US to dribble over.
If they refuse, the brand simply just threatens to find somewhere else.
But if the workers try to protest their pay, they're physically and mentally tormented by the factory owners, they can't leave, they don't have a choice, this is their main source of income.
It's a cycle of abuse.
The reason why you can buy a t-shirt for £3 is because the materials are cheap, you know that.
They're not made to last, we accept it when we buy them, thinking nothing of it.
But it's exactly how they keep us coming back for more, and exactly how they make the most money.
The cheaper the clothes, the lower the quality, which means they sell more clothes on average, so a bigger profit.
But It all comes at the expense of human lives.
If you're able to,
do the world a favour and buy second hand or upcycled clothes and if you're gonna buy on the high street, please just get clothes that are good quality and that will last.
If you want new clothes without fast fashion, shop with small ethical brands,
"A 2016 report into Corporate Leadership on Modern Slavery found that of 71 leading retailers in the UK, 77% believed there was a likelihood of modern slavery occurring at some stage in their supply chains."
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