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#1. camouflage print pumps.. six pound.
#2. tunic style top, blatant copy of the ones topshop are selling at four times the price... 3 quid.
#3. camouflage skirt (yes yes i see the pattern as well) blatant copy of the ones river island do almost every summer.. six pound.
YAY for primark.
#2. tunic style top, blatant copy of the ones topshop are selling at four times the price... 3 quid.
#3. camouflage skirt (yes yes i see the pattern as well) blatant copy of the ones river island do almost every summer.. six pound.
YAY for primark.
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go on, hit me..i'm anti-primark!
Annoying thing is they have shut ours until 2008 when our new shopping centre opens. Grr
dont own any primark stuff myself cos the mens stuff is yank, but the womens stuff always looks ok for like vest tops and stuff.
haha i bought them 2 the other day! :thumb:
And i'm normally not a primark fan, but couldn't complain.
only minor thing is i had a jumper which bobbled after about 3 washes
but what do u expect for the price?
primark is good for the trends....good for things that you're gonna wear a few times before its "soooo last season" and get rid of
i love it there
.... and of course it's just not ethically or economically viable to continue to produce and sell clothes at such cheap prices. Rather worrying.
i agree with the top shop thing especially the mens stuff, its shocking these days, unless you are some skinny, geeky person who wears a blazer and a neckercheif, its balls.
mostly everything you buy in the shops is going to be made by someone who doesnt get paid very much, but some places just charge more to make more profits.
if we were ethical about everything we did, we would walk everywhere, never drink coffee, tea or eat chocolate, and we'd all wear hessian potato sacks.
if it's a fashion item you may as well get it from there if you're only going to wear it for like a month!
are you serious?
i bet its all from china or somewhere, topshop still aint exactly top class stuff is it? i cant imagine their stuff being individually made...especially when its still pretty cheap in their stores.
I don't think she was...
ETA: you should make the most of china being cheap at the moment it wont be long till the prices start going up once they have the market to themselves, they already pretty much single handedly control the price of raw metals.
the amounts they have gone up with is a joke.
once they get to a level, they'll take over the world and rule all. mark my words.
Marks and Spencer is at least part of the Ethical Trading Initiative which means they have to sign up to a minumum set of standards for the workers who make their clothes and carry out regular audits and monitoring visits - which are then independantly reviewed.
It is perfectly possible to find nice clothes which are ethically sound as is its perfectly possible to drink tea and coffee and eat chocolate as well.
Oh and if you can be bothered i reccomend that you take a look at this before you next venture into primark.
The one in Leeds is horrendous and I never find anything nice in there. Manchester however has a really big one and its much better.
I'm sorry, are you for real? Talk about a defeatist attitude.
The fact that Topshop may or may not be any more ethically sound [though I believe it is, after having had the spotlight shone on it for similar practises in the past] doesn't make a jot of difference to the issue here, which is the questionable ethics of Primark. It makes me laugh that people think Primark is trying to do them a favour by selling things closer to the true price of their clothing. Word to the wise, no shop - expensive or cheap - is doing themselves out of profit for our benefit. The only difference is that some have signed up to monitoring intiatives and some haven't.
Oh, but of course, other people will be shopping/eating/living unethically, too... and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! :yeees:
For the record, M&S has fairly rigid standards in terms of clothing production (and the rest) these days. Not comparable to Primark, at all.
Aye thats where i got my shoes from on Sunday. It was soooo less busy than the one here so i didn't feel like running from the shopping screaming, and managed to stay in there more than 2 minutes.
I've been in the Leeds one and I don't think it's all that bad - but it's nowhere near as good as the Manchester one.
£83?!?! You could buy an entire wardrobe at Primark for that! Jeeeez girl, I thought I was bad!
NOT ONE, not one of the items I have bought have not lasted. The Pjs shrink when 1st washed and dried BUT hey buy a size bigger than normal.
And yes I do realise they probably slave trade the hell out of poor bangladeshi workers and I shouldn't be encouraging by buying but, like briggi said if you can't beat em, join em!
err no i don't think thats what she said.
I would like to see you live on $7 a week though and then decide if you would like to still buy cheap clothes.