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The first of a four part series on BBC 3 was screened last night, which follows a group of fashion addicts who experience the life of a factory worker in India. The factories make clothes for the British high street and the six young adults experience what it is like to work in the mills of India’s cotton belt and stitch clothes in cramped back rooms, sleeping next to their sewing machine.
A real eye opener for the group involved and the public who tuned in last night, don’t miss the next episode which is scheduled for Tuesday 29th April on BBC 3 at 9pm.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Great article, great story. Hopefully many people will watch this to see how appalling the fashion industry biggies are and really - shame on them for allowing this to go in the 21st century. All in the name of profit…
May 7th, 2008 at 5:47 am
What a bunch of lily-livered cowards. It makes me ashamed to be British.
What did they expect to see in a third world country where there is no comparative social structure and certainly no welfare state. Why do these gutless prats have to compare India with Great Britain.
Our ancestors went all over the world and concquered adversity in their new reduced circumstances. This bunch just moans.
I hope they will be ostracised when they return to Britain.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Vin I agree totally. What a waste - I thought this was a serious take on the garment industry ( I won’t call it fashion after seeing Tara’s hideous clothes… totally ripped off from the 70’s - sickening to see a fashionista trying to don punk style, sorry love it doesn’t work). But it’s actually the six idiots that the show is about. WHY couldn’t they have chosen six young people (interested in fashion not just faux fashionistas) who could have given a more balanced viewpoint.
The idiots are walking around India like they walk around their city centre shopping malls…. no wonder they’re being “stared at”. It’s not as if rural Indian people have not seen whites before, perhaps they were laughing at Tara’s make up and “style”!
But this week it was indeed Tara “StarLet” who made a total PRATT of herself. An £800 bracelet and she not only travels to India with it, but wears it while working on the cotton chute.
Plus she blamed the boys for the Toilet smell…. said they were being soooooo childish and then pulls the most stoooooopid childish face and says DUH…….
haha.
Yes they deserve to be ostracised. They need to grow up and get a life. The expression spoilt brat comes to mind.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Vin.. our ancestors conquered the world because they had mechanized killing, guns, nobody else did. At the time it was put down to the superiority the white race. You may think its noble. It wasn’t. Our ancestors who conquered the world are the reason there is so much inequality in the world today. It is the attitude that the world is there for us to take and we can have what we want that exists today, and stems from our past activities abroad.
I am not normally this sad posting on the internet but your ignorant uninformed comments riled me up.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:14 am
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