Cheap And Nasty

So here is one of my rants, brace yourselves! I hate cheap clothes, well no, that's not entirely true, I love cheap clothes. I am religiously rummaging around in sales and trawling through charity shops. What I really mean is that I hate high street stores that sell those 'oh so cheap' clothes that will inevitably completely fall apart after the second wash. Another factor being, aesthetically speaking, they more often than not look damn right nasty. I can definitely spot a cheap item from a mile off; cheap black (it's never really black enough, and just looks like you've already owned it for years on end), bobbled fabric (cheap t-shirts mainly), print (the cheap ones just look cheap), and another thing is bad craftsmanship (seams and cut mainly). 

Now it's not that I'm lazy, I'm certainly all for a bit of clothing DIY; I love to chop and change my clothes! But if I'm going to buy, say, a cheap white t-shirt, I would like to know that it's not going to go bobbly, or turn that horrid chewing gum white/grey after one wear, or that the seams aren't going to come apart after the first wear. It's almost not even worth the money! Running round picking 5 up saying 'It doesn't matter because it's a bargain!' is completely narrow minded! The amount of those cheap and nasty's I would go through in a year, I'd have been as well forking out and buying that half-decent white t-shirt that I was umming and ahhing over in the another shop (which certainly would last well over a year). Basics are a necessity for every wardrobe (I'll post more on key basics a bit later) so why not pay that little bit more for something that will be needed for much longer than that 'in season skirt' that will most certainly be out in a few months time?

Another thing with cheap clothes that bothers me would be the manufacturing and production side. You pick up a dress in a cheap shop for £7, and think of it as a complete and utter bargain. What you don't think about is how it was made.. If everything else in the shop is equally as cheap, chances are it was made by (or partly made by) a desperate 7 year old girl who is being paid around 18p a week for working hours on end, day in and day out. Not such a lovely little bargain now, is it? It's places like these that should be put out of business, it is just utterly disgusting that they are still allowed to trade in my eyes!

And that there is just a little about my opinion on those cheap and nasties out there. Let me know what you guys think!