£23.80 per outfit for 10 outfits?

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I'm attaching pictures of my basket, what do we make of getting 10 outfits for just under £24.00 per outfit or item I guess.

Sorry but all I can se is underpaid workers producing stuff this cheap.

Maybe, but is there any evidence that paying more filters down to the workers?

Fast fashion that is choking the earth. Do you need 10 outfits or can you buy a couple of decent quality things which won't date and you'll wear for years?

I don't see these dresses as being particularly cheap ?

Are you advertising for them?

@shinynewapple22 that's what I was thinking too. About £25 for a dress is normal pricing.

For people judging - where do you want people to get clothes from? I agree buying 10 new dresses at a time is excessive, but the individual price is standard to me.

The dresses are all pretty similar. Do you wear dresses a lot day to day, if not I’d think one flowery/floaty dress was enough.

in theory I agree with the spend more to get a piece that is well made and timeless… however in reality I struggle to do that too because so many shops now are badly made fast fashion wear

1. It's 9 outfits unless you plan on wearing the trousers topless and jumper bottomless
2. It's cheaply made using plastics and may not last well
3. PP note about garment workers conditions
4. PP note about environmental impact - first step is minimise purchasing, second is using recycled material - these clothes have neither
5. I only like the lurex stars
6. Is this really that cheap? I've bought an outfit for my Xmas do on vinted for £10 which includes a jumpsuit, and the shoes

For a moment, I thought you were posting from the right side of the fence, in order to raise awareness of the absurdity of fast fashion. Then appeared and my heart sank.
Even my primary school pupils know that fast fashion is environmentally unsustainable, almost certainly unethical for the workers producing it, and that "hauls" are nothing but bad taste. A group of empathetic 10 year olds with their heads screwed on properly and their hearts in the right places understand this and know that there are other ways of clothing ourselves that do not support an industry which damages planet and people. And no, they're not privileged in any way, but come from a catchment in one of the areas of greatest deprivation in England. Hence the empathy, I guess.

Are they made in China? If so you may be wearing something made by ethnic minorities in a concentration camp under threat of torture. Up to you if you’re ok with that.

If they’re not made in China, crack on.

I don’t have evidence but only buy from retailers who are members of reputable organisations like SEDEX, B Corp , part of the Ethical Trade Initiative so I am reasonably certain workers get paid a living wage. The revelations at the start of the pandemic about workers outside the UK not being paid for work completed made me stop and think. Cheap clothes ( cheap anything) costs lives

Do you really need all those clothes?

Surely that’s just 10 dresses, not 'outfits'? (Outfit to me means shoes/ accessories/ maybe something to go over the dress if it gets cold).

Depressing. Before reading the post I was hoping it was charity shop, Vinted, EBay etc.

A jumper is not an outfit.

Yes, please tell us where we should be buying our dresses. Remembering that minimum wage earners like new clothes occasionally too.

Tugboat, I think reframing it as "new to me" is helpful. I don't mind at all if someone else has owned and worn a garment before it passes into my ownership. Not one jot. In my mind, other people are fine; there's no "ick"-element to wearing something that someone has worn before me.
And the relief I feel that my shopping choices are not harming planet or people is immense.
If I want a 'new to me' dress, a filtered eBay search for "tiered midi dress, longsleeved, size X, material of choice, UK location" etc, will give me 100+ options, most in excellent condition, hardly worn, at a great price, complete with a clean conscience.

@TugboatAnnie im not telling anyone where to buy clothes just saying that stuff that cheap can’t pay a living wage. I also abhors factory farmed meat / poultry for similar reasons. I know many people can’t make such choices. They should be able to

Where are these clothes made? The company does comply with the Modern Slavery Act. Do you really need these dresses? Seems like a lot, unless you were revamping your wardrobe and donating the old ones to charity.

I'm wondering if people are misreading this as 10 outfits for £23.80 rather than an average of about £25 per outfit. Seems a reasonable amount to pay.

Lol. No.

What an odd post. Were we supposed to say “that’s such a bargain, you definitely need all those clothes, you go girl!”

Aside from everything else already said, I can’t imagine liking 9 dresses enough to buy them from one shop. There are other shops available!

Can’t imagine assuming everything would fit me/I’d like it enough to keep, either.

Bizarre.

So much pontificating. But amusing to read.

Thank you for your insights.

No not misreading. £25 for a dress will probably be poor quality and it's cheap.

That makes it even more depressing you find it amusing.

I wouldn't say £25 was a normal price for a dress. Imo that is cheap. For me personally I'd rather pay that price on ebay and get a better quality dress at a cut price.