Gap leave a Gap

It seems Gap have declined to respond to my letter sent several months ago to them. These are the questions that I asked them, and which they did not want to answer: What percentage of the retail price of a garment goes to the worker who made it? How do you determine how much to [...]

Plugging the Gap

I have just written another letter to the fashion retailer Gap asking about their ethical practices.  In the past Gap have had very bad press about the production of garments for them, in particular regarding the conditions at their cotton factories and farms. Having said this though, Labour Behind the Label lists them in their [...]

Another letter at last – to Fat Face

I have at last found time to write another letter to a High Street retailer to encourage them and find out more about their ethical policy.  This time it was the turn of Fat Face. Fat Face are members of ETI (the Ethical Trading Initiative) and have a practical and realistic ethical policy on their [...]

Do you feel guilty?

If you buy, or are given, cheap clothes, do you ever think about the worker that made them and do you feel guilty that they probably won’t have been paid a fair wage?

Letter to Dorothy Perkins

I have just printed off my letter to Dorothy Perkins asking them about their commitment to ethical trade and the treatment of their workers in developing countries.  On their website there is no ethical policy and they are not members of ETI (the Ethical Trading Initiative) which is disappointing.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion’ [...]

Letter to Debenhams

Debenhams have an influential positoin on the British High Street as they not only sell their own clothing ranges, but also those of other designers such as: Jasper Conran, John Rocha, Betty Jackson, Julien MacDonald, Matthew Williamson, Pearce II Fionda, Ben De Lisi, Pip, Hackett and Ted Baker amongst others. I have written to them [...]

Letter to Coast

I have written to Coast about their ethical practices, they do not have an ethical policy on their website, nor are they signed up with the Ethical Trading Initiative.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion 2007′ report written by Labour behind the Label they are in the category of having ‘nothing to show’.  There is a [...]

Well done Next

Next have replied in full to the questions I sent them regarding ethical trade and the welfare of their workers in developing countries.  It is a positive response and you can read it in full on my ‘Next’ page under ‘Responses’. Next appear to be taking the responsibility for their workers in developing countries seriously and [...]

Letter to Adams

Just printed my letter to Adams Childrens Wear.  I haven’t been able to find an Ethical Policy for them and they are not signed up with the Ethical Trading Iniative (ETI), so at the moment they seem pretty bad at protecting their workers.  I’ll let you know their response of course – if I get one! [...]