Not everyone has the funds to purchase a $200 shirt or maybe a $400 pair of shoes, yet they can most likely have enough to afford a $1000 sound system with a matching $600 television to go with it. Clothing with expensive price tags and big names have always been seen as unnecessary and superficial, when in reality, covering yourself with garments is a basic necessity. Buying designer clothing brands should be supported because they don’t encourage cheap labour which leads to horrible working conditions, the longevity of quality designer products doesn’t promote the negative environmental impact with cheap clothing, and lastly it makes you feel unique and boosts your self-confidence.
The fashion industry produces hundreds of billions of dollars annually and millions of jobs around the world, however, what percentage is given to the workers for their essential service and at what risk are their lives. Brands that create cheap and low costly clothing such as George & Joe Fresh, also create cheap labour jobs with the rate of an estimated US37$ a month. Parenting corporations (Walmart and Loblaws) hire these companies who strive to produce at low costs with the purpose of gaining as much profit as possible, consequently, by doing so they induce conditions for their workers that are inhumane and life threatening. Rewinding back to the Joe Fresh and George brand factories collapsing in Bangladesh, a near total of 1500 garment workers, with women and children involved, lost their lives because of the faulty state the buildings had been in. The safety of the facility is one of the main priorities when it comes to the working conditions of an employee but they already knew that. Popular designer brand names including Engineered Garments or Wings & Horns don’t support cheap labour and horrible working conditions partially because they advertise heavier price tags, and when considering those prices, the manufacturing becomes more costly,