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The other day, my housemate told me about a story he'd seen on the BBC news website (I think), where the headline was: "Should We Stop Buying Stone-Washed Jeans?"
Apparently the stone-wash effect is achieved by sand-blasting them, often in Turkey, in factories where the health and safety standards are a bit, well, sub-standard. (He suggested they should rebrand them as "Silicosis-Washed Jeans".)
The thing is that the explanation of why buying stone-washed jeans (in Britain, possibly everywhere) is immoral is somewhat superfluous. And by somewhat I mean completely. It's been more than twenty years since the 80s ended. The answer to the question, "Should we stop buying stone-washed jeans?" is, quite clearly, "Yes. Yes, you should."
What's next, a push for fair trade shoulderpads and neon stirrup pants?
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