The price of a dress

[Gernella]

I was reading recently that the cost of shoes and clothes is going to rise substantially (or I might have heard, can't remember).  In those horrible adverts that line the side of newspapers, especially when you have taken a casual glance somewhere for something, they were reeling dresses at £7 each.  The most I seem to buy nowadays RTW is underwear and shoes  and I take care with the shoes as I want to be able to walk not wince.  Invariably they are more expensive than others.

So these dresses at £7, it would be interesting to see the quality of the fabric, the insides and how much each item to buy in bulk?

A few years ago I was looking for a bathroom storage drawer unit and wanted one like I already had for upstairs.  Couldn't find one but did finish up on a website, could have been something like Alibaba where something similar was being offered for bulk buying at a price of around £3.60 per unit.  I was flabbergasted.

So what price a £7 dress and what does the machinist get, if anything. 

Would price going up on clothes have an adverse effect on price of fabric by the meter
 

[jintie]

@Gernella ,  some retailers now tell us more about what their garnent workers are being paid.
I would also like to see that info for textile weavers. And also for all the toxins  and water used.
I have stopped buying white clothes and household linens after reading a book called Time To Eat The Dog.

[Kwaaked]

One of the suppliers I buy from in India pays a little over $6 a day to their textile workers, and it is considered a good job.  Those who make sarees make less ($5 a day).  The company is also considered safe and they have almost no turnover.

[Gernella]

Well @jintie we do usually (if no one else in the house) do two wees to a flush.  We do a lot of things differently now, but more in part to going on a water meter.

[Lowena]

Ooh I could never compromise on flushing the loo.

[UttaRetch]

I've seen dresses for £5 and they look as cheap as you can imagine.  There is no way that the workers who sew those dresses were paid a decent wage.  Indeed, the recent lockdown in Leicester was thought to have stemmed from a garment factory where workers were getting about £3.60 per hour.

[Gernella]

Trouble is @UttaRetch a small picture running down the side of a newspaper page, they look okay, I bet they get plenty of takers,  whether the get sent back is another matter.