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I know someone very well who works in this very industry and is currently even in the country, and I can say that it is still being produced there because it is cheap. In addition, it is not much better at other locations.
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@MSK is there a way to pay more attention to that? so sure, if it says "Made In India" or a shirt costs only 9€ or so, the production will probably offer bad conditions. but what else can you pay attention to when you buy clothes in stores?
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@Mcl1991 In principle, price is of course an indicator that is correlated, but not causal. This can be seen, for example, in all the expensive fashion brands that do not necessarily produce more fairly. But 5€ for a T shirt without discount promotions is difficult from the pricing alone. There are again many manufacturers who bring their production to Europe, but this is also not necessarily always unterstützendswert, because even in Portugal can be massively exploited. I find alone quality seals such as Gots meaningful, even if these rather on environmental aspects, but also a few social aspects. Above all, certain processes are then present here. Otherwise, there are heaps of fair fashion and also entire online retailers for this (eg Waschbär), but the cuts are partly difficult and here then a T-shirt costs rather 30-50€. You can rant a lot about H&M and Ikea, but their supply chain is usually very professionally set up and linked to quite high requirements (unlike Otto.de, for example).
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•@FFH thank you for your answer! Right, I now see more and more seals of quality, which then mark sustainable production or fair working conditions. do not know me there yet so out, but are these seals to be taken seriously or is there also a lot of "greenwashing" operated? The Otto boss was on Markus Lanz a few weeks ago. I found the conversation quite interesting. So Otto is actually already doing something in the direction of sustainable production, recycling of materials and friendly working conditions?
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@MSK that all sounds really bad... But that the big fashion labels act so, was clear to me. you pay most of the money for the name of the label. but in fact, some fabrics, seams and colors are somewhat better in slightly higher priced products. so zb. shirts between 30-50€. but I think it's good that more and more companies are now using labels to draw attention to how something was produced. Or Zalando, for example, now even offers second-hand fashion.
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@MSK but there are more and more... And so the companies are also gradually rethinking or are moved to 👍 important is to educate people further. That's why I think it's good that you're also doing that here in the comments 👍
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@MSK Thank you for sharing your experience. In any case, there is still a lot that does not work as it should...
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