“But here’s the larger point: Even if Mike Jeffries decides that his company should make larger-sized…”
“But here’s the larger point: Even if Mike Jeffries decides that his company should make larger-sized products, you still shouldn’t shop at his shitty stores. Your hard-won right to purchase overpriced size-18 dark wash skinny jeans from Mike Jeffries means you’ll be buying a product that was probably made by underpaid sweatshop labor in some godforsaken third world death trap factory. No, literally. In 2010, 28 workers making A&F clothes were killed in a Bangladeshi sweatshop fire. The company was inducted into the International Labor Rights Forum Hall of Shame before that incident. Granted, being burned up in a fire while trying to earn a living isn’t at hurtful as some dickbag CEO besmirching the coolness of Chicago moms, but maybe we should think about demanding that companies selling $90 blue jeans provides decent pay and workplace safety for their employees before we fret about whether stores are making American consumers feel “hurt” while at the mall.”
– Via “The Only Thing Worse Than Abercrombie & Fitch is this anti-Abercrombie & Fitch Movement” on Wonkette
