Import Export of clothe from cheap labour in China to the trend from vintage clothes imported from Europe.
I once met a man and his wife who ran a vintage clothing shop; the shop was full to the brim with bags, shoes and clothing from the fifties to the eighties and everything in between. “ How come you manage to sell everything for so cheap?” I asked. He told me that there is a lucrative vintage clothes industry based in Europe, he would travel to Germany once a year to export clothes from warehouses, filling a shipping container with old clothes to bring to Britain. for the forth coming year. This is how many vintage shops source their goods, by going over to countries in Europe buying up shipping containers filled clothes. (taken from Matt Penrose)
The journey an item of clothing takes.
Consider where one garment comes from and the journey it had to get to it’s destination. From the raw materials to processing into fabric, shipped to a factory to be made into a garment and transported to the shop where it will be sold where eventually a customers along likes the look of it and decides to take it home.
When was the last time you looked at the label where you clothes where from, very rarely is it made in Britain.
(taken from Stephanie Rodrigues)
…how about photographing peoples clothes label.
The rise in clothes imported from china and no longer produced in Britain.
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