Fast Fashion

         Sometimes when you scroll on social media platforms such as TikTok or Instagram, you often see influencers tagging brands or giving viewers their discount codes to these brands. Some very common brands that do this type of sponsorship are clothing brands. Notably, fast fashion brands such as SHEIN, ZARA, H&M, and many more well known clothing brands. Fast fashion is a type of business model that produces trendy clothes fast, but low quality. When you hear this ay first you might think, "oh wait this is great. I can get cute and trendy clothes for such a low price!" Well this is too good to be true. The reason why fast fashion is so bad is because of the labor it takes to create these clothes at such as fast pace and the resources that these companies use to make these pieces. Many of these companies use cheap materials such as virgin polyester and require large amounts of oil churns to produce their products. This is equivalent to the carbon waste as 180 coal-fired power plants according to Synthetics Anonymous 2.0, a report published on fashion sustainability. 
        Not only that though, but the labor that these companies force onto their workers are inhumane. According to U.K.'s Channel 4, they've found that SHEIN employees were working 75-hour shifts with very little time off for themselves. To compare, full time workers are found to only have 8-hour shifts with flexible schedules for breaks or other necessities provided by their workplace. In comparison, SHEIN workers are working 9 times more than your average person, with little pay as most of the workers were working under minimum wage or had no contract at all. With time, hopefully we can move on from buying from these horrible companies.
        



Comments

  1. ToroOctober 27, 2024 at 2:01 PM

    I love how you looked into external sources to collect outside data for this blog, it shows a deep desire to understand the conditions in which these people are forced to work under. I’d always known that the working conditions were bad, but never put my own time into really researching the topic myself. I respect your desire to learn and provide others with information they may be ignorant in seeking.

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  2. IselaOctober 27, 2024 at 4:13 PM

    Hi Megan! I love your shift in tone at the beginning, when you were talking all happy about influencers and their discount codes. Then you tone completely shifted and you used quotations to imitate sarcasm before you directly said fast fashion was bad.

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