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 [...]

Fat Face – blacklist or not?

I wrote to Fat Face over a month ago and have heard nothing back from them, so they are nominally on my blacklist although I still hold out hope that they will reply.  Fat Face are members of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and have an ethical policy available on their website so it would seem [...]

Want to support exploited workers in China?

War on want is running a fundraising campaign to support exploited migrant workers in China by providing them with education about their rights.  China spent $42 billion on the Olympics. But what about the workers behind the scenes? The reality is grim for millions of Chinese workers, who toil for next to nothing in appalling [...]

Play Fair Campaign

www.labourbehindthelabel.org/campaigns/playfair/nomedal The link above takes you to an interesting article about merchandise that has been produced for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it seems that gross abuse of workers has taken place. www.playfair2012.org Of course now is the time to influence our MPs about merchandise being produced for the 2012 Olympics in London.  I wrote to [...]

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 Boots

I have written to Boots about their ethical practices, they are rather odd in that they are signed up with ETI (The Ethical trading Initiative) yet make no mention of an ethical policy on their website – you’d think they’d want to make more of the work they are doing with ETI.  So I’ve told [...]

Letter to Boden

It has taken me a while but I have got round to writing another letter to a fashion retailer; this time it was the turn of Boden. They are already working with the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and have an ethical policy on their website.  My letter aims to encourage them in the efforts they [...]

Response Received from Next

Last week I wrote to Next and asked them some questions about their ethical trading practices.  I wanted to find out how much importance they gave to the rights of their workers abroad in places like India.  Based on research I had done on the web (see my ‘High Street’ page) it already seemed that they [...]

Primark on Panorama

Did you see the BBC Panorama’s programme about Primark yesterday?  It is still available on BBC iPlayer if you didn’t.  It was worth watching at it showed convincing evidence of the conditions that workers in India endure in order to have an income.  £1 in every £10 spent on clothes in the UK is spent in [...]

Who is Already Ethical?

If you would like to buy clothing that you can be certain is produced in a ethical manner where workers rights have been respected and there has been no exploitation, then I have just added a new page – Already Ethical – that gives a list of my favourite ethical and fashionable on-line shops.  Most of [...]