Comments on: Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

By: Joanne McMmenamin

Joanne McMmenamin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:08:55 +0000

How is it when one of the girls had to bring the blouses to the bosses office which seemed to be in walking distance, it was immaculate as well as the bosses clothes . Why is it a man who is in that office can’t see how inhumane it is to his workers not fight for them to have a clean environment.I think they can have a middle class if they just give up a few dollars and be compassionate. They have only upper and lower class of people because they won’t share and expects other countries to feel sorry for them and help them out, which I have to say is what I would like to do , it hurt watching Blood Sweat and T shirts .
There is absolutly no reason for anyone to sleep at work especially on a filthy floor when in the same building is a spacious clean area for them to sleep on.

By: Kelley

Kelley — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:39:10 +0000

Wow, I am so glad that those snobs did not come from the states. Not that we don’t have our own variety of ignorant fashionistas that have never worked a day in their life. How embarrassing! God forbid this show continues to put children in danger by getting them fired from there jobs and putting them back on the streets. India will eventually fix the mess that the British Empire created for them without western production companies sending over their clueless teenagers to publicly disrespect the people of India and reinforce the stereotype that westerners are all like they are.

To the people of India. I apologize.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:27:48 +0000

“Think about it, every time you buy a t shirt an Indian child gets fed and ok albeit not a lot but it’s better than nothing.

Am I right?”

NO YOU ARE WRONG !!

WE AS WESTERNERS ARE AFFIRMING THE LARGE BUSINESSES IN THE PRICES THEY PAY THESE PEOPLE. WE ARE AFFIRMING SLAVE LABOUR…..LETS AFFIRM MORE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS THAT VALUE THERE EMPLOYEES AND THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS. LETS BE PUTTING OUR MONEY IN ACTION BY BUYING MORE THOUGHTFULLY.

WHERE IS IT FROM?
WHO MADE IT?
HOW MUCH DID THEY GET PAID?
WHAT ARE THERE WORKING CONDITIONS LIKE?
HOW MUCH CHEMICALS HAVE GONE INTO THIS GARMENT AND MATERIAL?
WHO BENEFITS AND WHO DOESNT?

WE NEED TO THINK WHOLISTICALLY.

By: Anuj

Anuj — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:19 +0000

Does anyone know what the name of the vintage shop in Soho that Amrita went at the end to sell her clothes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:35:10 +0000

The thing is If you don’t buy the clothes made by those Indian workers they go out off business and probably starve or die.
Yes, I don’t agree with the living conditions at all, but I don’t agree with boycotting shopping stores because of it.

Think about it, every time you buy a t shirt an Indian child gets fed and ok albeit not a lot but it’s better than nothing.

Am I right?

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:41:45 +0000

Richard is nothing but an arrogant Prick. And this guy grew up in a council estate.How can he be so arrogant and rude to people of India. Hey Dumbo no one invited you to go India.
Luckily this guy had a camera sticking up his a*s 24/7 when in India, or he would have got his a*s kicked in India. Before you blame the people of India and China for their problem, just learn what Britain did from 1700’s to 1940’s to these 2 countries. Reason why Britain is well off today is because of how these two countries were systematically looted and destroyed by Britain.
After watching the show , I have nothing but respect for people of India. Having been to India many times, I have seen first hand how much this country has developed in last 15 years. And I am sure India will be much more prosperous and well off country, in coming 15 years.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:36:16 +0000

Richard is rude and arrogant.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:52:22 +0000

No Sara Sorry I have a girlfriend

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:05:29 +0000

Hey Richard, What you said there is great. Is it possible that if you read this you could please please get in touch with me? I have some questions to ask you which are really important. Thank you!

By: Hanna

Hanna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:55:16 +0000

I just saw the three first episodes. It was aired here in Norway, which is great, but I don’t think most people can watch it because most people have don’t have the channel it was aired on here. Good thing is, it’s aired online (and it’s on the “HOT” list, so more people will probably watch it online that on the telly.
I know we are WAY behind of showing it, but atleast some people see it.. Better that noting right?
Atleast, this show (after the first episode actually) made me change my view about clothes. By the second episode I was crying(and I’m not the person that cries aboth “noting”). I feel really bad.. I just spent a lot of money on(compared to what the indian in “the fashion industy” make make in a day, or like a month, or a year) money on clothes I’m gonna wear once, for a bad-taste party…
I feel awful right now…
Congrats to the makers of the program, because you really showed me what “fashion” is all about…
Sorry for the spelling, the show got me so depressed I HAD to drink… And my red-wine was probally made by nine year olds… *shudders* Again, apologies for grammar, I’m slightly drunk and not english…

By: ellthing

ellthing — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:52:40 +0000

I thought these programmes were eye opening – no matter how much we “know” about the dreadful conditions people work in, the visual impact of the series hit home. I would like, though, to see a series which shows what happened next. Who handles the stuff in the Uk, how musch are they paid and what about the companies selling the stuff? How much do their executives get? And, most importantly, the shareholders? Somebody must be creaming off the money. How can a T shirt retail for under a fiver when you consider all the labour and other costs which go into it? Even worse, how can somebody make a profit on selling a T shirt for under a fiver?

By: Tallulah Joe

Tallulah Joe — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:03:45 +0000

After the large Primark was opened to my amusement a few years back in Manchester, I slowly came to a conclusion without programmes or internet research – £2 for a 12 pack of knickers means someone’s getting a raw deal out there.

I have since researched and found a beautiful organisation – War On Want. WOW take real initiatives in respecting and funding those who produce such garments, taking real issues not with the workers or the consumers, rather the conglomerates that decide “Yes, £1.50 a day is a wage I am comfortable paying my workers”. I avoid Primark, I squint my eyes at TopShop fashions every now and then, and I try actively to find stylish yet fairly produced garments.

This programme has just echoed my personal beliefs, and I think the participants of the show deserve respect. They physically endured the temperatures, smells, attitudes, comfort or lack of, lack of sleep, constant psychological revelations and torments etc. They gradually transformed from being part of many varying ‘Typical Consumers’ to a minimal proportion of the population of consumers – the ‘Educated’ ones.

Well done chaps and ladies, I would have loved to have endured the experience myself, but having watched the programme I feel I’ve gained a substantial amount even from the comfort of my front room. Kudos especially to Stacey whom I can relate with being so taken back by the children’s optimistic outlook. I also respect Richard for his conclusions – it’s true, what Jamie Oliver has done for chickens someone can do for 3rd world labour. Ooh also, Tara’s (I think?) initiative to combine current trends with Fair Trade organisations is something no one dares to approach it seems in major stores. The potential there is enormous!

Basically, I’ve got food for thought here, and I’m quite proud of how the participants came out of the experience. Love to all, and to the BBC – please get this on Prime Time BBC1 one day! What a difference it could do.

By: charlesclemens

charlesclemens — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:44:43 +0000

this is the great programme Showing the real deal.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:35:52 +0000

If you are in the UK, check out BBC iPlayer if you missed the latest epsiode:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b6tx7.shtml

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:10:18 +0000

You see the sad thing about people like you is that one day you’re going to start doing some thinking of your own, (wow how scary no privately educated journalists or internet scholars to plagiarise thoughts and opinions from to pass off as your own. Your dinner parties will never be the same again! Image the horror when your friends find out that your once thought of as bright self actual spends the weeks reading Hello magazine, listening to censored, biased and laughably independent news channels, oh and not to forget ‘real life documentary’s’ tackling the true issues of the world by an independent broadcaster that of course only cares about the greater good of mankind.) you’ll suddenly come to stark realisations such as David Copperfield can’t actually make the Statue of Liberty disappear, Wars are fought over power and money not to preserve the safety of the innocent, reviewers are failed journalists that serve to provide entertainment for the masses that are so bitterly unhappy with their lives that ridicule and rigour to those generationally different from themselves is their only escape, political correctness causes more abomination than it prevents, and shock horror ‘real life’ documentary’s are made by commercially driven privately owned production companies. Whether it be through ignorance, naivety or just plain stupidity that you don’t realise that when over six hundred hours worth of footage is shot for a 4 hour mini-series you can just as easily portray somebody to be the spawn of Lucifer as you can a descendant of Christ himself. I cannot even begin to explain the amount of inconsistencies, misrepresentations and at times blatant lies that were in the first episode alone!
Yes I accept that at times my choice of language wasn’t the most articulate and given the benefit of hindsight I should have toned down my level of obscenities. But to label me a spoilt brat or call me culturally ignorant because I found the conditions appalling is absurd. You may not have agreed with my choice of wording but I spoke the truth nevertheless when describing the environment I was in at the time, it was literally a sh*t hole. This is not to say that I had no compassion or sympathy for the people or I wasn’t completely outraged, appalled and disgusted at the conditions they lived in. The point I was making, which was obviously lost on many people amongst all the obscenities, as backed up by many a scholar throughout history is that in many ways the people I met contribute to their own downfall. If you still don’t believe this then I invite you to spend 6 weeks out there living and working alongside these people after which any criticism you want to point at me I will accept with open arms. But if like most I should imagine you’d prefer to scorn those that do care enough to investigate these conditions for themselves from your comfortable arm chair then I would ask you to not invoke the escape clause in your live and refrain from posting narrow minded comments about me on internet forums.