{"id":13472,"date":"2018-03-16T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13472"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:41:07","slug":"true-price-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/true-price-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Price Of Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever gone shopping and thought about the real cost of the clothes you are buying? Or thought about the workers who made those clothes? You probably haven\u2019t and I must confess that I hadn\u2019t either until this one time I went shopping and I found a top I really liked. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I went to the cashier to pay, I realized the top was $10 dollars. After I went home, I started wondering what the real cost of that article of clothing was. I couldn\u2019t resist thinking about the workers that had made those types of clothes and how much they were paid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I did some research, what I found was completely frightening. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I investigated where our clothes come from. I thought China would pop up, but instead I found out that most of the clothes brought to the United States and Europe come from Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A documentary about workers who make clothes for the fashion industry, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truecostmovie.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The True Cost <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by Michael Ross<\/span>, states that in the 60\u00b4s the United States made 95% of their clothes. Today the United States makes about 3%\u2014 the rest is made by developing countries. However, the biggest issue for me was realizing the conditions these workers have to work in, and how companies push the manufacturers to cut costs and pay their workers around $1 to $2 per day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cheap prices we get excited for are basically equal to the workers low pay. Sounds awful, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What also impacted me was hearing the opinions of some of the sourcing managers of popular brands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are doing a job,\u201d said Kate Ball Young, a former sourcing manager at Joe Fresh, in the documentary. \u201cThey could be doing much worse.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This type of opinion is just a reflection of how these companies really feel about their workers and how hungry they are for money. They feel like they owe nothing to these people who clearly have no other alternative than to keep working in poor conditions, where they can&#8217;t even make enough for a living. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides the social issue, the fashion industry is killing the environment. The majority of the textile sector uses dangerous chemicals, creating water pollution that comes as a result of wet processing and dying facilities. This creates an unhealthy environment for our society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To conclude, there is nothing we can do to get these workers a better salary, but we can definitely do some research and buy from companies that treat their workers right. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever gone shopping and thought about the real cost of the clothes you are buying? Or thought about the workers who made those clothes? 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