Comments on: Let’s Clean Up Fashion

By: photo

photo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:21:18 +0000

i think that is not fair , i completly agree with you john

By: john baker

john baker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:50:07 +0000

Of course, I have a lot of sympathy for all these views. But for my part I’m in the consciousness-changing-business. Perhaps not as effective as many other ways, but in the long-run, I suspect, the only way we can go.
Oh, and, Jerry . . . not shallow at all; as deep as your nearest merchant-banker’s pockets.

By: david

david — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:14:07 +0000

The industry, any industry, won’t do what’s right until it’s demanded by the stakeholders (either owners of the stock, the employees themselves, or perhaps the customers). Until someone actually stands up and says, “This is wrong and we won’t allow it to continue,” I doubt if anything can or will change. The status quo is too profitable.

By: Jerry Prager

Jerry Prager — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:06:31 +0000

say it isn’t so John, is the fashion world really that shallow ?

By: The Old Hack

The Old Hack — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:35:49 +0000

Putting pressure on the big stores isn’t working. With them shareholder loyalty and value comes way above any sense of fairness or justice. Pressure needs to be put on the consumer – and herein lies the problem. When a low income family can go to one of the big stores like Tesco or Walmart and get their kids school uniform at a fifth of the price, they are not going to be easily persuaded to change their shopping habits – and in all fairness they cannot be blamed for taking the view that “charity begins at home” when kitting out their kids or themselves.

I’m not in favour of over legislation, but here I think it is going to be the only answer to this problem. So come on Foreign Office and DTI – give us some good, joined up thinking on this, and prove to us that Labour really does have a social conscience.

By: Tenders

Tenders — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:35:34 +0000

I kind of agree with the article, but what needs to be remembered is that with globalisation companies are often moving into countries where the wages are naturally low, but they very much have an internal economy where everything is priced in a similar manner.