To think Shein has upped it’s game

My suspicion is that a lot of U.K. High St brands use Chinese manufacturing that is just as poor. I don’t buy from any of them, but I also recognise that some people can’t afford to spend more then they have to, so if Shein is cheaper than Primark, I suspect the additional cost just goes to the middleman.

Have they stopped using child labour and slaves? Have they stopped ripping of other people's designs? Have they stopped flooding the planet with their poorly made tat?

I would never buy from this company and judge people who do as shallow and too dim to see the massive ethical concerns about a company churning out so much stuff, unethically, and killing the planet in the process. All so you can have some "nice bits".

Alternative clothing for me is buying from small, independent stores.

Unless the view of alternative clothing is basically mass produced Hot Topic? Hardly alternative when buying from Shein.

China uses cotton picked by Uighurs that they're currently ethnic cleansing. They use child labour and people don't have human rights, never mind labour laws.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton

I will never ever buy anything from Shein

Shein is rubbish..the "good" designs they have are rip offs. Keep buying all this chinese crap and watch western economies deteriorate.

See, I think it's the other way. I've found Shein to be better both quality/delivery wise to Temu.

When people say Shein is no worse than the high street, that’s really not true. Companies like Next and H&M have auditors and legal requirements, they get inspected, so they can’t just use slaves or toxic chemicals. They’re not perfect but they’re better than that. It’s one thing to buy the odd thing off Shein because we all get tempted but you really can’t pretend it’s no worse than anywhere else.

that poster making light of flammable clothes on kids is something else 😳.

Don’t worry I tell my toddler not to smoke or light fireworks when she’s wearing a £1.50 Shein dress.

I expect Claudia Winkleman also knew her daughter wouldn’t be smoking or lighting fireworks when she wore a cheap Halloween costume from a UK supermarket which unfortunately caught fire, leaving the child with serious burns. (Halloween costumes are often classified as toys rather than clothes and are therefore not subject to the same UK safety standards).

Please note I’m not blaming Claudia or the child’s father for this incident- it happened because the clothes were flammable and children’s clothes really shouldn’t be.

It’s just not really something to laugh about.

Sorry my earlier post should have said 3rd world country not company

Not a recent video but still a useful watch. J Leconte is a trained seamstress who has lots of experience of the fashion industry.

Upped their game??? Slave labour of the Uighur Muslim Minority? Wow. People are openly supporting and shopping this slave trade? Seriously. Please educate yourself. You have access to the internet it is not acceptable to be so ignorant in 2025.

Don't worry I tell my toddler not to smoke or light fireworks when she's wearing a £1.50 Shein dress.

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I think the point you are deliberately ignoring is that these rags end up being sent to some other 3rd world company to be incinerated and all those fucking awful chemicals end up in the eco system

This is really interesting. In my youth, I was very alternative, part of the lifestyle, clothes and everything else. Part of that was cultural. We didn’t just want to look alternative, we wanted to be alternative. And part of that was speaking up for the majority world, caring about the environment, speaking truth to power, protesting the mainstream zeitgeist.

Is it now just important to look alternative?

I am not a fan of Shein or fast fashion in general, but after my dd with SEN wore nothing but her school uniform or pjs for 3 years I was thrilled when she found some clothes on Shein that she liked. And best of all she actually leaves the house now because she has something to wear. Judge away, I dont care. And none of the clothes she likes are especially cheap, jeans are around 25 pounds, t-shirts 10, jumpers 15/20, certainly more expensive than primark.

Dd has had some decent stuff. I was in H&M today and a lot of their stuff looks like rags to me, but at triple the price!
I think that wherever you buy these days it's a lot polyester/recycled plastic shite that will make you sweat and look like a dishcloth as soon as you wash it. Unless you can afford to spend much more than standard high street.

🤣🤣 altenative clothing - what ever that is
different types of style has been around for decades punk romantic goth etc every type of alternative clothing
it's not affordable clothing either. it's aimed at people who have disposable income and keep spending it every month- that's how it works the mindset that its cheap you need it and buy buy buy. people who can't afford to buy clothing every month don't spend that..they source good quality clothing that they need make stuff to last.

Sick to death of all these blatant PR posts.

No we're not going to ignore all the ethical issues because you do a powder puff review on Mumsnet.

It's not unique though. It's all mass produced designs stolen from actual "alternative" brands and made with questionable materials and even more questionable supply chains. That's the real bottom line.

My town centre has lots of takeaways, pubs, tattoo shops and vape shops, what more could my DC's need!

Then the same people who buy it will be moaning that there is nothing left in their town centre. Nowhere for their DCs to go, etc. etc.

I don’t buy from them because they steal designs from other designers and put them out of business.
If people carry on buying from them, then don’t be surprised when all the other clothes shops close down. Then all you be left with is buying clothes which are shipped half way around the world.
Think of the environmental impact that will have, never mind the slave labour etc etc.
It is fast fashion, it is unnecessary.

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Yeah no holes or anything and I wear them over and over.

No I wear alternative clothing and they do different stuff to what I see in shops. Anyway you are gearing for an argument, bottom line is we love the stuff and it’s affordable.