Workwear

[Doctor]

I work in tesco Jeans which cost £3 each pair, following on from a previous thread am I morally bankrupt?
If so what should I wear, bearing in mind I have to look smartish, so I probably don't keep them for more than a month as they get glue on them.

I am more than willing to do my bit, but where do I start, Levis are £35 thats expensive for a months wear. Also, probably made in sweatshops.
Jumble sales- to time consuming
old cloths- don't have enough turnover

Help me do my bit.

 

[Rob_H]

Mike was making a very valid point about using non-sustainable timber. I appreciate your point, and it is a moral decision that only you can make.

 

[wizer]

I see you in something like this Doc

 

[Doctor]

Agreed, but talking about cheap clothes what can I do apart from increase my budget and what guarantee does that offer against buying sweatshop clothes.

 

[wizer]

If you really do want to be green then I think the best thing would be charity shops.

 

[Doctor]

I'm afraid wiser that charity shops give me the willies, I feel nauseous as I type

 

[ginsters]

cant live without my h/h trousers and my strause bib and brace's

no matter how there made

 

[Paul Chapman]

I'm currently wearing Primark, boot-cut denim jeans. The best jeans I've ever bought for cut, fit, quality and price.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Fergus]

Maybe I am a bit topsy turvy in my thinking but surely if no one bought say the £3 jeans then the people that make them would have no job ?

 

[Doctor]

This is the point though Paul, Primark is a no no, it's is the epitome of sweat shop labour, probably worse than Tesco's.
I'm fairly lucky and could afford a better brand but I don't know that it would have any better (labour) crudentials.
Take Nike for example they are not cheap but have a terrible reputation for poor factories, should I investigate everything I buy or is it the responsibility of the brands and importers, surely the people on low wages have very little choice in the matter.

 

[bluezephyr]

What about Dickies? A workwear question and no mention of them yet.

Dickies trousers are Smart and not hugely expensive. Where is the factory?

 

[Woodmagnet]

I wear Asda's George jeans, £3 quid a pair. :wink:

 

[studders]

Agreed, but talking about cheap clothes what can I do apart from increase my budget and what guarantee does that offer against buying sweatshop clothes.

None at all. I used to live above a, supposedly high end, fashion 'Boutique', not called shops apparently. All the boxes and packaging that went in the bins had 'Made in Taiwan' or China or Thailand on them.
The recent BBC series about where our food comes from was a real eye opener for me. Can't recall the title but it's well worth a look if you have BBC iplayer. The conditions some of these people are forced to work in are unreal; the wages they get are crazy compared to what the goods sell for over here. But, and it's a big but, according to those workers if we were to stop buying they would be in dire poverty far worse than they are in now. So what are we supposed to do?

 

[Karl]

according to those workers if we were to stop buying they would be in dire poverty far worse than they are in now. So what are we supposed to do?

Surely this is the point of the argument.

Those claiming the high moral ground don't really seem to have thought this point through.

Cheers

Karl

 

[ginsters]

What about Dickies? A workwear question and no mention of them yet.

Dickies trousers are Smart and not hugely expensive. Where is the factory?

horrible fit,the same as snickers you need no thigh muscles to be able to fit in them

 

[BradNaylor]

In his idiosyncratic way the Doc is making a very good point.

There is absolutely no reason to suppose that a pair of jeans costing £40 is produced under better working conditions than a pair costing £3. The truth is we just don't know.

There is a lot of nonsense talked about 'slave wages' in the third world. I used to travel to Indonesia a lot buying furniture and visited many factories. I never saw any working conditons appreciably worse than you could find in this country and in many cases the factories were absolutely first class. At the end of the day good working conditions mean happy workers which means higher productivity which means more profit. Factory owners in the far east are not as stupid as Victorian mill owners were over here.

As to the wages, yes; people work all day for five dollars. But if five dollars a day is sufficient to fund a family's lifestyle in that country what's the problem?

I think the Doc's a cheapskate though. I bought a pair of £3 Tesco jeans and they were total crap. £6 at Matalan gets you real quality! I buy half a dozen pairs every 6 months or so for work.

Cheers
Brad

 

[user 5053]

Dickies trousers are superb and less than a tenner. Also at some of the shows and markets you get stalls doing used overalls for less than a fiver a pair. What about woodturners smocks.. why are the only available in mud brown, carpark attendant green or Italian icecream salesman white and why so desperately unstylish. I want to see those turning demonstrators in satin red smocks with there names in large gold lettering on the back like them darts players.

 

[Doctor]

I think the Doc's a cheapskate though. I bought a pair of £3 Tesco jeans and they were total crap. £6 at Matalan gets you real quality! I buy half a dozen pairs every 6 months or so for work.

Cheers
Brad

Tesco's jeans are made for the athletic build where as its a well known fact that fatties shop at Matalan, were they the ones with built in lycra :lol:

 

[Doctor]

horrible fit,the same as snickers you need no thigh muscles to be able to fit in them

Worst look at my big muscles post, ever

 

[BradNaylor]

I think the Doc's a cheapskate though. I bought a pair of £3 Tesco jeans and they were total crap. £6 at Matalan gets you real quality! I buy half a dozen pairs every 6 months or so for work.

Cheers
Brad

Tesco's jeans are made for the athletic build where as its a well known fact that fatties shop at Matalan, were they the ones with built in lycra :lol:

What I particularly like about Matalan jeans is that I take a size 36 waist. At Tescos I need a 38!

Lying *******s!