Lisa S.

My opinion on this site is split. On one hand I would love to just buy that jumpsuit that looks just like one from zara (it is sold out there) and almost costs nothing but on the other hand - considering all those bad reviews - I really don't want to support a company like this. Additionally, we've all heard that the production of clothing for zara, h&m, gap etc. in china is often connected to inhumanly circumstances and child labor. But every time this kind of information gets to the media in the west, these companies get a lot of critics and then at least pretend to make an effort to change these circumstances (i. E. with campaigns such as h&m conscious etc.) and they pay attention to minimum wages. But now imagine enterprises who produce for sheinside.com, Chinese companies which produce no name knockoffs from the "western" companies such as zara etc. They have absolutely no rules whatsoever concerning minimum wages or child labor, they would never be criticized by the biased Chinese media and they also make sure that nobody will ever discover their bad working circumstances. So if you wonder why they can offer the clothes so much cheaper than the stores in our countries, it might be because they can produce even cheaper because the work ethics there is even worse than in the production for zara etc. Of course, these are all only vague assumptions, as I have never been in these factories and I have absolutely no idea how they really work. All I know is that a dress for 11$ in my opinion gives me a very very bad consciousness as it really smells a lot like child labor and 16 hour shifts. So one way to make a little effort against all of this - despite our common shopping addiction - is to think of this first before you buy something on sheinside. And I think through all these fashion blogs and magazines and society in general, we all get the intention that is good and necessary that we dress differently every day, we always need something new and get bored of stuff veeery quickly. I absolutely do not exclude myself from this. But trying to change that habit and that attitude would not only be environmentally friendlier but would also be good for our banking accounts :) Wearing a piece twice wouldn't hurt nobody. Really.