To ask why SHEIN clothes have increased in price?

I’ve never understood how people can justify forced child labour. Would they be fine if it was their children?

Those of us who are snooty about Shein have enough brain cells to rub together and work out which retailers match our values, and know that not all retailers happily use child Labour and modern day slavery practices. There is always an alternative. HTH.

If you scroll back and read the whole thread you will see that this is not true - There is proof actual proof Shein suppliers and high street suppliers are not the same. This is why France are imposing this levy and many more will follow suit.
Everyone has access to google, easy to find other websites that are better than Shein.

That's not actually true. Shein, for example, has it's own factories in Guangzhou that exclusively supply Shein. Factories which routinely break Chinese labour laws.

It's an easy cop-out to say that Shein/Temu etc are no worse than other more credible retailers, but it's not actually true. And it's still pretty easy to shop in places that don't routinely exploit desperate people.

It's also pretty wild to describe people on a parenting forum who object to goods being made by forced child labour as "snooty" and "holier than thou". I mean, come on.

Those of you that are all snooty and holier than thou about Shein, you do realise that the majority of high street/online retailers in the UK use the same suppliers?

They don't use mythical ethical suppliers where the clothes are made on magical clouds by golden unicorns paid £100 per hour!

Shipping costs. It takes far longer to ship from China and Asia around the bottom of Africa than to cut into the Mediterranean via the Middle East. Plus fuel costs for shipping and for factory machinery and lighting and so on, and raw materials for synthetic fabrics, have rocketed.

Thanks for that, I've actually just bought that book. Looking forward to reading it.

If you don't have Instagram , plenty on google tik tok facebook etc
Apologies i should have said 20 years not 2 years, it has started years ago but has accelerated since 2000 big time Shien and Temu are new
Places like M&s ect did have good quality but then new players came onto the market like zara like bohoo etc, consumers were moving to them and they decided instead of standing out they followed their same processes
Yes there are high end retailers also making poor quality nad this is something Andrea Chong does on her mindful Monday series, she goes into a shop, any shop from Primark to the designer ones and shows people the labels shows them the construction of sewing, hole buttons pockets how it fits etc, its eye opening and this is what we need to look at before price
Here is a book that she wrote too its very good
Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear?: Spend Less. Shop Smarter. Revolutionise Your Wardrobe: Amazon.co.uk: Cheong, Andrea: 9781788709156: Books
Bohoo is shocking , they have ruined all the labels they took over inclduing karen millen coast oasis etc
Watch this documentary to open your eyes on them
Undercover: Britain's Cheap Clothes: Channel 4 Dispatches

Oh this is thrown out all the time. Shein as not created to provide clothing to people who are poor and on a budget.
People who buy from Shein are spending aprox 300e a month on clothing, they are not people who are poor or on a budget, they are people earning good money with disposable income and this who Shein is aimed at
People who are genially poor and on a budget, wear clothes to death repair when need and source clothing from charity shops vinted etc
Because they don't have bricks and mortar shops etc like Zara H&M Primark, the also dont have to comply with trading standards for what chemicals factory standards etc. So what your buying is also so dangerous for you. If your dressing your children in Shein clothing please please stop now

Thanks, I tried to have a look, but I don't use Instagram. But - I don't think this has happened over the past 2 years. I remember people regularly buying absolute rubbish quality/fake clothing in markets 30 years ago.

I think the real issues started at least 10-15 years ago with the high street decline. There was suddenly a lot less choice, and the shops that were left started reducing standards significantly.

Places like M&S and Next, who used to be decent quality are now very variable, and no better than Primark, New Look, etc, who used to be lower end. Everyone is producing the lowest quality they can get away with. Even the people charging a premium. IMO, the issue is that the majority of people just don't have the spare cash to pay what M&S would have to charge for a better quality pair of jeans. And they have to buy new jeans - because the £30 pair they bought in spring have worn a hole in the crotch.

Most people are not buying wear-once items from Boohoo. And paying £120 instead of £30 for a 100% acrylic jumper made in Indonesia is not a superior position.

The popularity of Shein demonstrates why slavery stayed legal until so shockingly late. People of all classes just want their stuff cheap.

100% this. This and people who ignore the unethical working conditions just so they can have a sunny holiday in Dubai.

Well exactly, people love to moan about how there are no jobs especially for young people. Most of my generation had our first saturday jobs in shops. Plus you know that if you buy something from Zara it's been tested for safety, is not made with dangerous chemicals and isn't going to go up in flames.

And even if you don’t give two hoots about the environment or workers elsewhere, companies like Zara are job creators in OUR country - they have invested in retail sites that bring people to our high streets and employ people in their shops - something that Shein doesn’t do.

This x 1000. You can’t claim to support all the things our civilisation has worked towards (labour rights, environmental and safety standards) and then buy things from Shein.

Just buy less but support companies who manage their supply chain and aren’t involved in slavery.

People like to shit on Zara but they are pushing forward the development and use of post-consumer recycled textiles, organic cotton and European fabrics, which is at least something.

Reviving the high street ti some extent - because it will never be what it was - needs a huge attitude shift. We need more people to value clothing and to discard this idea that you can only wear things for one season and that anything you bought in 2025 or before is now unwearable. Or that cheap = best. Or that we all deserve to have a wardrobe full to bursting with stuff. Buy as good as you can afford and keep it, repair it until it is literally falling to bits, then replace. And step away from the "hauls" and the mountains of stuff bought for every "occasion" through the year.

Ah yes, those people who have empathy. Just awful aren’t we. It’s not being ‘self righteous’, it’s just not supporting sweat shops and inhuman working conditions. But if being rude to those people makes you feel better about your cheap top then go for it.

I don't think it's self righteous at all. Just being aware of something unpleasant and wanting to make others aware of it is not self righteous. Caring for people's work conditions and the impact on our planet (yes, yours as well by the way!) Is not self righteous. I buy stuff in charity shops and sometimes in regular, more upmarket shops when they have sales. I really do not need poor quality clothes which will end up in landfill in a couple of years.

Great news, prices rise and hopefully the UK high street starts to recover. Decent shops, good choice and jobs, including Saturday jobs for young people.

We have also lost a sense of community, few of us ‘go shopping’ anymore. Loved doing this with my mum or with friends.

Loads of benefits in SHEIN, TEMU and the masses of awful Chinese ‘scam’ companies who poorly copy designer clothing and sell via fake AI photos.

Polyester, acrylic, spandex, elastane, nylon = plastic.

Have you ever heard of the Strait of Hormuz?

Wearing shein clothes is so gross, they're full of chemicals and nasty stuff and they're made by a country that keeps uyghurs in prison camps and harvests their organs. There was recently asbestos found in kids toys made in China too. Buy better quality made in the EU clothing and buy less of it, they have the REACH regulation so you're exposed to less contaminants and pollutants in their fabric.

Good. Hopefully it will stop people buying mountains of shite to wear once and dump into landfill.