Or not by the exploitative ones of which there are many.
A post from early 2020 and definitely still relevant as we hear of low paid garment workers being paid less money because of a slow down in orders for 1st world brands so that they can’t feed their kids properly. Let’s also not forget the recent finding of the dumping of used 1st world brands all over the pristine Atacama desert. The joy of vacuous fashion.
I wear clothes until they wear out and often when they have holes in. Many of the T-shirts, because I invariably wear T-shirts now that I no longer work in an office, have stains under the arms through use. Can you imagine what the fashionista police would say about that? The influencers and influenced will be going OMG and possibly swooning at the thought. For me it’s not about what you wear but about what’s in your head and in your heart. As for brands well I don’t suppose that many can tell the difference between a £300 original bag and a £30 copy which may or may not come out of the same factory. It’s not because I can’t afford new clothes it’s because I have respect for both the environment and the 3rd world labourers that have been exploited. I can’t actually pay these workers directly but I can support organisations that are doing something about the dirty business of fashion and economic slavery.
So here’s a T-shirt, it’s definitely 90s, from New Internationalist and its first nation saying is more relevant today than when it was said. It’s in very good condition and I will continue to wear it and display and support its message.
Our links
Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.
My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.
This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.
We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.
Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.
Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.
On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/