Fashion Fail #3

OK. So if you know me you know that i generally try not to buy things produced in a sweat shop. I do this with the truly optimistic belief that what i choose to buy has power, and what i choose not to buy holds power. This is the general idea of the t-shirt show above.

Let me tell you where this shirt came from. This shirt is apart of the product (red) campaign. Good idea right? Get popular companies to sign on to having novelty products that will then help benefit the global fight against AIDS..... yes please. This is apart of the Gap's new campaign of getting famous artists to design a product red shirt. This particular shirt was designed by Geoff McFetridge. Who is a graphic designer in LA.

but when you put a slogan like this on a tshirt to help aids victims that was made off of sweatshop labor in peru, please think about what you're saying. So thank you gap for kind of thinking of others. PS you did it off the backs of small children all over the world, who are occasionally raped and forced into labor with no pay (http://tinyurl.com/lj9aao).

So yes the message on your shirt is correct, we can change the course of this world by what we choose to spend our money on. This goes for everything from clothes to food. We can choose to think about who made it, where was it produced, what was it like to grow, how did it get to my hand, why is this price so high (or so low?). OR we can ignore it. and buy a seemingly "good" tshirt and ignore the fact that some one in Peru is suffering because there are no better options for jobs, and so they must work 20 hour days making clothes sold in shinny pristine stores in shopping malls for the affluent in america. Meanwhile they sleep in a dorm room with 8 other children, and live of of 20 cents a day.

So please. I encourage you. THINK about where you put your money. THINK about where this product came from. THINK. don't just blindly accept. and definitely think about what word you are putting on to what product