#anti shein

[starlight-bread-blog]

"You're an outfit repeater" You're a byproduct of a capitalist, consumerist society that thrives off the mass exploitation of the underprivileged.

[trvbblemaker]

hate hate hate seeing cute clothes or accessories on pinterest and being like "oh i want that" and then i look at the poster and it's fucking shein

[frank---ly]

i hate rich people on tiktok shut up shut up shuit up shut up shut up stop stop stop this isnt sustainable at all oh my god why

[dougielombax]

Note to self: Stay FAR away from Shein and Temu.

[rhaenyrasplotarmor]

To say "but they wouldn't be able to get an higher paying job" or "well the country is underdeveloped so it's normal" or even "they are doing a simple job, sewing isn't dangerous" when talking about how fast fashion ruined and is still ruining millions of people's life is insane.

"From an American or an European point of view we are surprised to see how those people make 2 dollars a day, but it's normal there" NO IT'S NOT.

The people there wash in unclean water, entire families of 6/7 people live in deranged houses that even if restored would be able to contain just two of them, they don't have good healthcare and their job certainly doesn't help help on that matter. They eat what they can provide which is NOT ENOUGH if you make 2 dollars a day!

Calling "accidents" things like the Rana Plaza collapse is even more insane. People that worked there already informed the factory owners of the bad conditions of their workplace, even the same day of the collapse.

Calling it an accident is also an insult to the 1134 people that lost their life while being crashed on by the building or suffocated by the absence of air. After 8 hours they were still finding corpses and also injured people, about 2500 people.

But why does this kind of things happen?

Because a shirt cost 5 dollars and there are a lot of people that desperately need a job. If a factory can't afford to produce a shirt for 5 dollars, be sure that another one will take that job. When the prices start to drop again a fast fashion brand needs to keep up with the competition. The factory, that will be payed less, needs to save money and eventually the owners will start caring less about the conditions of their workers and their workplace.

Rana Plaza was not the first or these events:

In 2012 the Alì Enterprises fire in Pakistan caused 289 deaths and the Dhaka factory caused 112 deaths the same year. To this day people are still suffering because of underpaid jobs and of dangerous workplaces. The danger that they have to experience also extends not only to the collapsing of the building, but to the chemicals in the air.

No human being should be living in those conditions and no human being should be able to blatantly ignore those people.

And this includes the people that keeps buying on shein and other sites like that one.

[thetricktofalling]

oh god. the evil energy coming from this ad could kill an elephant point blank

[halfbloodfullbitch]

People will say they’re part of subcultures made by the working class, focused on diy, and then make essays on why they have to get brand new clothes to look like the rich

[nopain-nokogane]

i wanna ask the shein influencers who stomp their feet and soullessly regurgitate, “individuals aren’t responsible for the actions of corporations!1!!” when they receive criticism online if they realize

a) how supply and demand works

b) that retailers like roles, shein, etc. are corporations that they are actively choosing to support and promote

and c) if they’ve signed any petitions, attended any protests, donated to environmental organizations, or voted in politicians who support greener policies (you know, things that individuals CAN do to mitigate the environmental destruction that companies and corporations cause)

because i feel like the venn diagram of people who fall into the first category and those who answer yes are just two completely separate circles

[lisascr3ature]

where can i find slutty clothes but like sustainably

[thenamesjared]

I'm so sick of seeing Shein clothes on Vinted. The site is SATURATED like most of the clothes I see on there now are Shein. I refuse to buy Shein clothes, even second hand, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see a cute shirt on my funky sustainable second hand site and then look down and see its Shein. I can't even explain the disgust. So done with this.

[cozypunkprints]

Beating Shein

In price, quality, and spiritually, with a tire iron

Here are some crappy Shein jeans and their prices.

Here are my newest visibly mended jeans

Here’s what they cost to make

LL Bean flannel lined jeans: $3.00, half off at goodwill (I know, lucky find)

Denim Patches: $0.00 taken from a much loved and mended pair of jeans that finally gave up the ghost after many years of loyal service.

Flannel patch to mend a hole in the lining: $0.00 from a lot of free scrap fabric my mom found for me in a buy nothing group.

Sewing supplies: $0.00 inherited/stolen from various female family members

Total: $3.00

Beating shein at:

Cheapness

Quality

Appearance (in my opinion)

Probably comfort

Not doing slavery :)

There’s a narrative that sustainable or ethical fashion is more expensive, and often this is true. But there are affordable ways to have a cool sustainable wardrobe.

To leave you: here are some process shots of how the mending was done, in case it helps someone else.

[itsbansheebitch]

I hate modern shopping

I hate how we are practically forced to buy clothes online now. I want to hold it in my hands. I hate how cheap on low quality clothes are today. I hate that production rates and profit come before people's wellbeing.

I hate Shein for brainwashing us into thinking a shirt should cost less than $5 when it's been clear for a while that their products are usually chock full of lead and new allegations say Shein is using actual slave labor

I hate Temu for bringing expected prices even lower and selling negative ion (which might protect you from 5G but certainly doesn't help on the radioactive front) items. For selling cheap garbage and trying to tell us they're a company.

I hate Shein and Temu for basically forcing underage influencers to take sponsorships so they can get out of bad financial situation.

I hate Amazon, but not their workers

I hate Etsy, but not their shop owners

I hate modern shopping. I'm tired of the labor violations. I'm tired of the bs and the hoops you have to jump through to find a company that doesn't use child labor.

I hate that pay is bad enough that people are forced to work for people like Shein, Temu, Amazon, etc.

I hate that we aren't paid enough to buy even mediocre quality products. I hate that about ~19 people for every 10,000 in America is homeless and 40% of homeless people have jobs. I hate that we are considered entitled when all we want is an apartment and to maybe be treated like human beings at work.

Anyway here's my personal good but expensive recommendation:

Sheep Inc clothing will last decades at least. They have a repair service which you can use for life.

This isn't a paid ad I just like their business model

Btw, don't even get me started on Nestle

[mitchyhawk]

“grunge shein codes” “goth shein codes” “punk shein codes” i rly hope you know all of those subcultures will laugh in ur face. they’re literally anti-establishment, anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, anti-corporate greed, & sm more. punk is literally based off DIY ethics 😭. anyway. thrift, shop second hand, estate sales or yard sales is the way to go. fuck your shein codes.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

a dude my ma works with at amazon died of a stroke on the job because they force them to work in hot conditions and they refused him water. they bring in modified temperature readers so they can say "see, it's a safe temperature in here, all up to code uwu" but someone snuck in their own temp reader and it was much hotter than they claim it is.

it was ninety degrees Fahrenheit. heavy lifting for several hours at a time, no water, in 90 degree loading docks.

stop fucking using amazon. or at the very least, fucking unionize.

[thesilverlady]

Do you think Alicent was whitewashed in the show?

oh absolutely. And similiarly to Rhaenyra she gets a completely new personality to the point she's no longer anything like her canon self

book Alicent was an ambitious young woman who had centered herself around the heir of the Iron Throne while taking care of a dying old king. Those are manipulative, calculating moves.

I think Viserys genuinely loved her (more than Aemma in my opinion) and she very much enjoyed the power her and her family would get from this marriage.

Book Alicent is a lot more unsympathetic, but she's strong-willed, intelligent, and is an active participant in the events around her. The people who narrow her down to "evil step mother trope" clearly do not understand grrm's writing. Her actions mimicked Tudors politics and she was a powerful figure in the story despite not being a main character.

Meanwhile, show Alicent is nothing like her book counterpart. The story we got wasn't an "origin" for her background; her age was changed, her personality was changed, her goals were changed, her dynamics with her children/stepdaughter/husband/father were changed.

The only thing book and show Alicent have in common is the name

[usbotthrills]

I love you people who knit

I love you people who sow

I love you people who make your own clothes

I love you people who repair old clothes

I love you people who wear clothes until they’re totally worn out

I love you people who upcycle

I hate you shein

I hate you shein

I hate you shein