How Fashion Can Kill You
How would you feel if someone were to tell you by wearing clothes you promote modern day slavery? The type of slavery where a person completely controls another person using violence or threats of violence to maintain and control, exploits them economically and they can not walk away. People never stop to think about what, the word “fashion” really means, and of course the first thing that comes up in our minds when seeing the word “fashion” is clothing, clothing that we wear on a daily basis. Furthermore, people do not think about the harm fashion can bring, or how far people would put their lives on the line just for fashion. Additionally Women and men are putting their life at stake just for the fashion industry, …show more content…
But in reality models are being placed in horrible condition, like having to only eat a certain amount a day, to starving themselves to death, and finally getting people to notice them. To put it differently Tom Phillips the author of “Anna Carolina Reston: the model who starved herself to death” complicates matters even further when he wrote,”If someone is just a tiny bit bigger than the industry demands,’they are treated as if they were morbidly obese”(3). As can be seen above models are placed under the hardest training, to the point of just a single criticism can alternate all their fear. They are no longer treated as humans, but modern day slavery. Comparatively, the author of, “Toxic dyes” Rebecca Ley insisted,”Perfluorinated chemicals used to make some breathable fabric are dangerous…..’And fabric treated with brominated flame retardant, like that very widely used to make children's sleepwear, is also a worry. It’s been shown in studies with rats to diminish brain capacity”(5). Above all, how many people in the world know that the blanket they are buying for their children could end up killing them? From toxic dyes to poisonous rat capacity, is being placed into our clothing yet we cannot do anything about it. Overall the fashion and clothing industries have secrets, from the danger they put people, to using modern day slavery in order to promote themselves as high brand
How would you feel if someone were to tell you by wearing clothes you promote modern day slavery? The type of slavery where a person completely controls another person using violence or threats of violence to maintain and control, exploits them economically and they can not walk away. People never stop to think about what, the word “fashion” really means, and of course the first thing that comes up in our minds when seeing the word “fashion” is clothing, clothing that we wear on a daily basis. Furthermore, people do not think about the harm fashion can bring, or how far people would put their lives on the line just for fashion. Additionally Women and men are putting their life at stake just for the fashion industry, …show more content…
But in reality models are being placed in horrible condition, like having to only eat a certain amount a day, to starving themselves to death, and finally getting people to notice them. To put it differently Tom Phillips the author of “Anna Carolina Reston: the model who starved herself to death” complicates matters even further when he wrote,”If someone is just a tiny bit bigger than the industry demands,’they are treated as if they were morbidly obese”(3). As can be seen above models are placed under the hardest training, to the point of just a single criticism can alternate all their fear. They are no longer treated as humans, but modern day slavery. Comparatively, the author of, “Toxic dyes” Rebecca Ley insisted,”Perfluorinated chemicals used to make some breathable fabric are dangerous…..’And fabric treated with brominated flame retardant, like that very widely used to make children's sleepwear, is also a worry. It’s been shown in studies with rats to diminish brain capacity”(5). Above all, how many people in the world know that the blanket they are buying for their children could end up killing them? From toxic dyes to poisonous rat capacity, is being placed into our clothing yet we cannot do anything about it. Overall the fashion and clothing industries have secrets, from the danger they put people, to using modern day slavery in order to promote themselves as high brand