Fashion is always changing; month after month companies are coming up with new styles for the upcoming season. Particularly in stores like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21, they come up with fashion ideas and designs week after week. These stores are a part of big business, specifically when it comes to fast fashion. The phrase ‘fast fashion’ refers to designs rapidly move from the runway and into stores in order to have the current fashion trends. Although this seems like a fantastic notion for those who like to be trendy and in style at all times, this idea has more cons than pros. With this concept in mind, clothing chains have become more and more unsustainable, causing harm to not only the earth but to people as well. The cheap clothes that are
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Many of the third world countries will make the clothes for cheap, the United States and the Europe look to maximize production while still minimizing the cost they pay, therefore maximizing profit. Although the big businesses look to pay less, they do not realize how it affects the companies they are paying to make the clothes and who they employ. The garment factory workers in Bangladesh are paid around thirty dollars a month; this is less than what is considered a living wage in India, which is around fifty dollars a month. Not only do the workers get paid less they also work more hours and in worse conditions than many people, especially when compared to those in Europe and the United States. According to the War on Want, a registered charity fighting against global poverty, “Many are forced to work 14-16 hours a day seven days a week, with some finishing at 3am only to start again the same morning at 7:30am. On top of this, workers face unsafe, cramped and hazardous conditions which often lead to work injuries and factory fires” (waronwant.org/sweatshops-bangladesh). The owners of the garment factories are usually very strict and care more about getting the clothes finished than their own employees. This attitude has cost many workers their lives. On April 24, 2013, Bangladesh had a major disaster on …show more content…
This isn’t just by the retail companies themselves doing the work, society has to do their work and research in order to make our clothing last more than just one season. There needs to be work done with the cotton and the farmers who grow it, the types of insecticides used, the water infrastructure, especially when dying the cotton, as well as how society handles garment companies and how to make them more humane and a safer space to work. The protest sparked some interest like the makers of the documentary The True Cost, but that was only the
Many of the third world countries will make the clothes for cheap, the United States and the Europe look to maximize production while still minimizing the cost they pay, therefore maximizing profit. Although the big businesses look to pay less, they do not realize how it affects the companies they are paying to make the clothes and who they employ. The garment factory workers in Bangladesh are paid around thirty dollars a month; this is less than what is considered a living wage in India, which is around fifty dollars a month. Not only do the workers get paid less they also work more hours and in worse conditions than many people, especially when compared to those in Europe and the United States. According to the War on Want, a registered charity fighting against global poverty, “Many are forced to work 14-16 hours a day seven days a week, with some finishing at 3am only to start again the same morning at 7:30am. On top of this, workers face unsafe, cramped and hazardous conditions which often lead to work injuries and factory fires” (waronwant.org/sweatshops-bangladesh). The owners of the garment factories are usually very strict and care more about getting the clothes finished than their own employees. This attitude has cost many workers their lives. On April 24, 2013, Bangladesh had a major disaster on …show more content…
This isn’t just by the retail companies themselves doing the work, society has to do their work and research in order to make our clothing last more than just one season. There needs to be work done with the cotton and the farmers who grow it, the types of insecticides used, the water infrastructure, especially when dying the cotton, as well as how society handles garment companies and how to make them more humane and a safer space to work. The protest sparked some interest like the makers of the documentary The True Cost, but that was only the