People wear branded clothes for various reason, they go about
putting them on every day without knowing how or where they were produced. The
majority of clothes we wear within the western world have some form of cheap
labour involved. This cheap labour usually occurs in the third world. As this
online article by the NY times shows, we cannot be fully reliant on the labels
on the clothes to know where they were actually produced. Consequently it can be said
that people falsely claim they wear clothes for better quality due to the place it was produced.
Looking at production costs of designer goods gives a clear
explanation of why designer brands have high gross net worth’s. Taking Gucci as
an example the article shows how most people perceived it to be a good quality brand,
with primary reasoning that it was made in Italy. This perception has been
proven to be wrong as there is evidence that some of their designs are partly
produced in China.
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