Will you still buy stuff from Boohoo?

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From recent article in The Guardian and other papers, it seems Boohoo have benefited from the scandal of low wag W work sears, some paid £3 per hour, in poor working conditions, forced to work even though they and others have the virus?

Seems totally unacceptable to me

I use boohoo as they have a decent plus size range. Most of the stuff I bought does last 🤷🏻‍♀️ I got a lot of stuff before I went back to work last November and still wear really well.

I also buy from there because that’s what I can afford. Might have to have a rethink

I just had a quick look and their clothes are fucking boring. So no on both that and their terrible morals.

I've brought from them a few times during lockdown. Partly because of delivery times and the need for clothing! I use it mostly for work stuff.
It has lasted for me I got some bits when I started working at my new company 2 years ago and they are still perfectly fine.
I was and am not in the position to be able to afford the likes of M&S etc at the moment so it is a needs must.
But as lots of people have said if we boycotted every single thing MN said we would have nowhere left!

I never have, but I am probably not their customer base. I teach students aged 17+, and a lot of the female students do buy from there, because the clothes are very cheap and fashionable.

I had a conversation last year with a student who had just started a weekend job in John Lewis. She was really shocked that people paid eg £50 for jeans, when you could get them for eg £10 in Primark, and they would be “exactly the same”.

There is a whole cultural shift/change of mindset which needs to happen around fast fashion. But if I was on a tight budget, or 18 years old, then of course I would shop at Boohoo or Primark.

I've heard the argument that these companies and the likes of Primark exist because people don't have the money to buy their clothes elsewhere, but having seen some of the 'hauls' on posted on instagram, I'm not sure I believe that anymore. Some people are buying 20 or 30 items at a time. Who needs that? Is it because they can't be photographed in the same item twice. There is research showing that much of this fast fashion is worn once or not at all, then dumped.

I would hate people to be losing their jobs over this but as previous posters have said, who on earth thinks £3 is a reasonable amount to pay for a t-shirt?

I don't know what the answer is - fast fashion seems to be the problem, but how many people would lose their jobs in the clothing industry if we only bought stuff we needed, with the occasional splurge for a party dress?

Hmm it's definitely put me off buying from Karen Millen (owned by Boohoo).

Stuff like this has been happening for years in Leicester;the only reason it's come to light is the Covid 19 situation.There's other issues that go on in the same community that's wrong that isn't talked about such as unofficial second and even third wives and there children with men still practicing polygamy and girls being expected to have arranged marriages at a young age;there's lots of young women that deliberately stay in further education to avoid getting married but once that education is finished they are paired off.

It's not just Boohoo. Lots of higher priced premium brands are just as bad. In fact, if people research they can see that Primark whilst often mentioned have one of the better reputations and really worked hard since their workers were caught up in that building collapse a few years ago.

Paying £50 for a pair of jeans often means more profit for the company and not that the workers got paid any more. Read about it and make up your own minds. Arcadia group prices are shocking and they are worse for this type of thing than Primark.

Personally I don't buy from pretty little things, boohoo and misguided due to quality. If H and M and primark can be hit and miss they are still a cut above those brands.

Also like pp mentioned Karen Millen is owned by boohoo, brands are so interlinked, it's not a question of spend more and you get better quality or spend more and the workers are treated better. If the brand does not care, then you spending more just increases their profit margin.

How many of you have dressed your children or yourself in joules pretty pastels?
Nice middle class brand seen everywhere and not cheap fashion yet their clothing is made in market harborough is the posh way of saying Leicester

If people didn't stop shopping with them in 2017 when £3 quid an hour wage made newspapers, they won't stop now

Nice middle class brand seen everywhere and not cheap fashion yet their clothing is made in market harborough is the posh way of saying Leicester

I didn’t think this was the problem? It’s about worker exploitation?

In fact, I would usually try to buy my clothes from Britain rather than, say, Bangladesh because generally the working standards are better.

Although not in this case clearly

@RebeccaPearson Let's leave chickens out of it for a moment* - you are saying that, if a company actively exploits and causes physical harm to their workforce, which is what is happening in this case, we should just 'live and let live' because opposing that exploitation is just an 'opinion'? And choosing to enable that exploitation and harm by purchasing completely unnecessary cheap clothing that will be worn once, maybe twice, is completely OK and valid and the people who make this choice should just be left to it?

I'm not innocent here, I may not shop at BooHoo but I am well aware that there is exploitation involved in my wardrobe. I try to minimise that by shopping as little as possible and through buying secondhand when I can (which is hard because I love clothes and I have a weird body shape). I also try to encourage other people to do the same and I absolutely would judge the hell out of anyone who continues to thoughtlessly shop for sweatshop clothes (i.e. nearly all high street and online mega-retailer clothes) that get worn once or twice and then sent to landfill.

*I am absolutely a vegan with no patience for people who make excuses for enabling factory farms through their consumption patterns, but that's not what's being discussed here.

Never did, never shop at Primark either.

Practices like this should be exposed more often.

Never bought from them and never plan to. Cheap, nasty tat made from viscose and nylon!

Its obvious the staff are paid pennies after the Joe Lycett show where they sent back stained clothes (ketchup on gusset, brown stains on underwear etc) and got full refunds! Re-ordered them, and got the supposed 'new' clothes delivered with the stains still on them!!! Utterly disgusting.

Never did.

It looks like stuff you get at those cheap market stalls.

It's cheap tat. Cheap tat which is made with the cheapest fabrics and cutting corners the whole way.

Pretty little thing, Asos, Shein - all the same.

I wouldn't shop with them after this.

One of the owners of BooHoo also buys property for redevelopment, I've been told by someone who lives in the same area that they treated the existing tenants of a building they bought to redevelop very badly. That put me off before this.

It's definitely made me think. I was actually looking for a cardigan last night and one popped up from Boohoo but I was put off buying it based on the recent news.

I wish i could buy everything from charity shops- i found some lovely work dresses/absolute gems at random charity shops, esp those in areas like highgate. Other than the fact you can't access them during the pandemic, it usually takes a lot of time and patience (that I don't have) to find something decent. Esp office wear. For example, i might want a navy blue work dress; that would take seconds for me to find a suitable one on the high street but possibly days and months if i went into every charity shop I passed.

I wish there was a charity shop which had the resources to photograph their donations (esp the nicer ones from brands ) and put them online (along with size number and short description). People could browse and then order online, opting for either post or click and collect. I wouldn't even mind paying more.

@Desiringonlychild

I wish i could buy everything from charity shops- i found some lovely work dresses/absolute gems at random charity shops, esp those in areas like highgate. Other than the fact you can't access them during the pandemic, it usually takes a lot of time and patience (that I don't have) to find something decent. Esp office wear. For example, i might want a navy blue work dress; that would take seconds for me to find a suitable one on the high street but possibly days and months if i went into every charity shop I passed.

I wish there was a charity shop which had the resources to photograph their donations (esp the nicer ones from brands ) and put them online (along with size number and short description). People could browse and then order online, opting for either post or click and collect. I wouldn't even mind paying more.

I have the same issue, so I use ebay for this. I filter for used clothing only to cut out the businesses selling new clothes, and then filter by colour, size, and brand to find what I want.

As a result I have a splendid wardrobe, including smart clothing, without buying new.