How much do your t-shirts cost?
Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to make clothes for the British High Street. In this new, four-part series, they get a unique experience of how their clothes are really made.
The trailer:
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Can’t get that channel in my area, but it’s looks like one of the more worthwhile ideas that multiple low-ish budget channels can come up with. Good for the BBC. Yet another reason I don’t mind paying a licence fee.
But what can we do? Stop buying the garments and the jobs – low paid and horrible as they may be – dry up and even the pittance is gone. Make it clear that consumers are willing to pay a premium for the assurance that they are not screwing over the vulnerable? Yes, that’s a slowly growing trend, but not big enough to make an impact on such a vast market. The producers will just buy an ‘ethical’ subsidiary to mop up the market, as with Green and Black.
Good idea to highlight the issue, but there are no easy answers.
Thanks for this! It looks great.