To ask why SHEIN clothes have increased in price?

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The whole point of shein is cheaper clothes with poorer quality. If we’re honest?
I have gd a browse this morning at their woman’s winter clothes section and I have noticed the prices have massively increased. Why would that be?

Consumers are to blame..they are the ones who have driven the price of clothing down. its not happened over night its happened over the past 2 years people want new new all time. they waited for sales or discounts etc retailers saw this and started putting pressure on manufactures moved them over seas as it was cheaper started substituting for cheaper materials all to drive price down to feed consumer demand. that's why sizing is so shite its not one manufacture doing smae clothing all tendered out to who can do it cheapest
there are other options out there you just need to look for them do your research on manufacturing materials etc. I suggest andrea chong a good start she on insta and tik tok. then apply what learned when shopping both on store and second hand. shops are not going not going to change untill consumers do. there are government laws coming into play which is helping but untill consumers stop it won't happen

A lot of people patting themselves on the back for looking down on people using Shein when most of their clothing or phones would have involved slave labour at some point.

Some of us can't afford morals when it comes to clothes, people are struggling to feed their families and live their lives. It would be a lot harder to earn money if you didn't have clothing suitable for work.

Some of us can't afford morals when it comes to clothes, people are struggling to feed their families and live their lives. It would be a lot harder to earn money if you didn't have clothing suitable for work.

Nah, you can!

Second hand, hand me downs or just buy less. Stop making excuses to justify the poor working conditions of other people, including children.

I would stop letting other People making you feel guilty. You are sourcing items for a specific purpose. The problem is when people who could afford to buy more ethical clothing still buy from Shein because they can get A lot more items they don’t actually need. I wouldn’t buy from Shein myself, but I hate the holier than you pile-ons you get on these threads.

White plantation owners probably justified have slaves for the same (ridiculous) reasons.
There is always a better option than Shein.

Everything they sell is made from and transported using oil. Which is both running out and currently subject to massive supply problems thanks to the USA.
Try shopping more locally.

The average shopper on Shein is spending hundreds a month. On cheap stuff which won’t last and is designed to be disposable. https://www.businessinsider.com/shein-average-shopper-spends-100-month-womens-clothing-2023-6

All the supermarkets have clothing sales on at the moment, there are bargains out there. DD bought herself a swimsuit in Matalan for £6. And as Matlan is a uk company, she knows it’s not been made by slave labour or with chemicals. Yes some of the big brands have been caught in the past using suppliers paying sweatshop wages or similar, but they sign up to schemes to try to make sure this doesn’t happen. Shein doesn’t care.

Shein are losing money due to import charges. I guess they’re trying to claw some back.

Your family, so presumably you have children.

How do you square off being a parent whist knowingly supporting a company that use enforced child labour?

Please explain, because I really can't get my head around that. That is some grade-A denial.

We all make compromises. I have very few clothes. A lot of them from vinted.
1 in 4 pieces of cotton in the UK will have been involved in slave labour camps, the materials in your phone will have been mined by slaves, most clothing companies aren't paying fair wages to their workers even Beyonces clothing brand was involved with slave labour. If you eat imported foods then it's likely somewhere along the line slave labour/unfair pay or dangerous working conditions were involved somewhere.
Nobody is perfect in what we do, I recycle as much as I can, eat seasonally and local, don't drive or fly so I'm doing my best to make sure there is a world for as long as possible. Not everyone can or will do that, they compromise their morals where they want.

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

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.

Have you ever heard of the Strait of Hormuz?

They surprisingly don’t! Although I feel I have been quite silly for not knowing they’re made of plastic?!

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

😬kind of glad I asked now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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