Should we keep shopping at shops that are fast-fashion brands? (1) Recently I found out there are many issues with fast-fashion brands after watching videos and it got me thinking of consuming fast-fashion brands. The point of “Fast-Fashion Brand” is that people get clothes at a low cost. But there’s an obvious reason for you to be able to buy clothes without paying a lot. Actually what’s really going on behind fast-fashion brands is exploitation. This labor exploitation is happening a lot in developing countries. ( Now that I think of it, I’ve never seen any labor in western countries , and it’s probably because the labor is far expensive and factories cost a lot to maintain it ) People who work in Sweatshop get underpaid for working long hours. And most of them are women and children. Ironically enough, these are the ones who make feminism t-shirt when they are treated and paid shit. Needles to say, the working condition is really harsh and terrible. What they get paid is even way below the living wage. This is the main reason why they(fast-fashion companies) can sell clothes at a low cost and even high cost, claiming that some of their lines are eco-friendly and high quality but still there’s an exploitation behind it. Since clothes are cheap and trend changes constantly and quickly, we just end up getting more clothes in our wardrobes that we did in the past just to simply keep up with the current trends. So in this day and age, we just have obscene amount of clothes, buying them senselessly and impulsively. This exploitation and price have been linked to environmental issues. This is mainly related to how fast the trend changes.The corporates present new designs very often like every week to make our clothes in our closet look old-fashioned and nudging us towards new trends. And the clothes that are not trends anymore end up on the landfills. The clothes are recyclable though a lot of clothes are thrown away to a point where they just outstrip the current capacity. There’s another problem with this. Actually the fashion brands don’t want to donate clothes, claiming that it will ruin their corporate image, which is a bullshit. Given there are so many people out there who can even afford clothes, it would make sense and sound helpful if they donated them instead of piling up the landfills with the clothes.