#discovered shein

[bosquedemel]

today i had a long talk at work (because it was dead) with the girl who came back from leave and i like her so much! like she gets it. we share so many opinions on life and i like that she's also reserved - though clearly more extroverted than me - and just in her own corner doing her thing. but she's 5 years younger than me and she's so mature in a way i'm not quite there yet. and she's so confident at work in a way that could only come from working there for 6 years as she has done. i know i shouldn't compare myself to others since i've only been there for 3 months but it reminded me of my post from the other week - about how i haven't worked a single job for more than 3-4 years and how that constant shifting doesn't allow me to develop a professional confidence and learn how to navigate working environments. cause i'm always the new guy and then i'm gone. like once again at the end of this month when my contract ends :|

#i wish her the best #it was a bit awkward though (at least in my mind) how at some point i criticized shein and its ilk and then she said she shops there often #its not personal #text #also in other news i discovered i've been doing smth wrong all this time at the till #even though im pretty sure others do it too so what's the truthhhhhh #(the truth is that no one explains things thoroughly and u learn from different ppl who do things differently)

[galadhir]

Started belly dancing recently - which is fantastic, I love it! - and discovered that a hip belt is vital so the instructor can more easily see what you're actually doing. (And if the belt has coins on it, it will jingle if you move and you'll be able to hear if you're moving incorrectly.)

Plus they're so sparkly and awesome! And they're easy to find if you happen to be straight sized.

But if you're plus sized in the UK? Nope.

There are coin belts that you can tie around yourself at the end of the ties, but the decorated bit will only come to your belly button. It looks stupid and it makes you feel bad. It makes you feel like your body is abnormal and you don't belong in this dance class with all these svelte little people.

What to do about it? Well, obviously, make ones that fit and are fabulous.

I started making them for myself. Then I thought 'maybe other fat people might like them?' And I've put some of them up to sell on Etsy

If you're wondering why they're so pricey compared with the straight sized ones you can get on Amazon or Shein, (I don't understand how they can even buy the materials for that price) it's because

they're made by me (not oppressed sweatshop/prison workers)

they're made from recycled fabric in small batches of what I can get hold of

because of the above, they are either rare or unique

If you can't find one to fit, I will make you one to your individual measurements

Let me know what you think! I am new to all of this :)

#belly dancing #bellydance #belly dancer #fatshion #plus size fashion #plus size dancer

[sgiandubh]

When you do not know a thing about the issue at stake...

...perhaps it's better to remain silent.

Some of you know, others don't - and that's fine - but my main field of expertise is labor law.

I just read this in anger and disbelief:

Look, lady. I don't care who the hell you are, what you do for a living or why you felt entitled to answer those insistent questions on your side of the fandom. I suppose you are North American and have no idea of how things work on this side of the pond. It is fine: I might know what a Congress filibuster is, for example, but I'd be severely unable to judge the finer points of competence sharing between Fed and state level.

The difference between you and me?

I keep my mouth shut and/or do my own research before opening it in public.

Have you no shame to write things like: 'It was discovered clothing factories in Bulgaria and Portugal made it and how workers were exploited, mostly women, because these factories were in special economic zones in these countries exempt from EU employee rights and regulations.'

HOW DARE YOU? What strange form of illiterate entitlement possessed you to utter such things with confidence, comfortably hidden behind a passive voice ('it was discovered')?

Portugal joined the EU in 1986. Bulgaria (and my country) joined the EU in 2007. I have given 5 relentless years of my life to make this collective political project a reality, along with hundreds of other people my age who chose to come back home from the West and put their skills to good use for their country. In doing so, I rejected more than 10 excellent corporate job offers in France and China. To see you come along and write such enormities is like having you spit in my face.

Article 4 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (aka The Treaty of Rome) is formal and clear, as far as competence sharing between the EU and its Member States goes (the UK was still, back then, a full member of the EU - it quit on February 1st 2020):

That means that ALL the EU regulations are being integrated into the national legislation of the Member States. This is not a copy/paste process, however. And because it is a shared competence area, the Member States have a larger margin of appreciation into making the EU rules a part of their own. While exceptions or delays in this process can be and are negotiated, the core principles are NEVER touched.

Read it one hundred times, madam, maybe you'll learn something today:

THERE ARE NO SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE WHOLE FUCKING EUROPEAN UNION IS A SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE, THIS IS WHY IT IS CALLED THE SINGLE MARKET.

What the fuck do you think we are, Guangzhou? We'd wish, seeing the growth statistics!

Now, for the textile industry sector and particularly with regard to the Bulgarian market, a case very similar to my own country. Starting around 1965, many big European textile players realized the competitive advantage of using the lower paid, readily available Eastern European workforce. In order to be able to do business with all those dour Communist regimes, the solution was simple and easy to find: toll manufacturing.

It worked (and still does!) like this:

The foreign partner brings its own designs, textiles and know-how into the mix - or more simply put, it outsources all these activities. The locals transform it into the finished product, using their own workforce. The result is then re-exported to the foreign partner, who labels it and sells it. In doing so, he has the legal obligation to include provenance on the label ('made in Romania', 'made in Indonesia', 'made in Bulgaria' - you name it).

The reason you might find less and less of those 'made in ' labels nowadays at Primark and more and more at Barbour, Moncler and the such is the constant raise of the workers' wages in Eastern Europe since 1990 (things happened there, in 1989, maybe you remember?). We are not competitive anymore for midrange prêt-à-porter - China (Shein, anyone?), Cambodia and Mexico do come to mind as better suppliers. To speak about 'exploited female labourers in rickety old factories' is an insult and a lie. They weren't exploited back in the Eighties, as they are not now (workers in those factories were and still are easily paid about 50% more than all the rest) and the factories being modernized and constantly updated was always a mandatory clause in any contract of the sort. Normal people in our countries rarely or ever saw those clothes. You had to either be lucky enough for a semi-confidential store release or bribe someone working there and willing to take the risk, in order to be able to buy the rejected models on the local market.

If I understood correctly, you place this critical episode at the launch of the limited SRH & Barbour collection, for the fall of 2018. How convenient for you, who (I am told by trusted people) were one of the most vocal critics of S during Hawaii 2.0!

And as far as Barbour goes, it never pretended to manufacture everything in the UK only:

This information is absolutely true. You can read the whole statement, signed in October 2017 by one of their Directors, Ian Sime, here: https://www.barbour.com/us/media/wysiwyg/PDF/Ethical_Statement_October_2017.pdf

And a snapshot for you:

Oh, and: SEDEX is a behemoth in its world, with more than 75.000 companies joining as a member (https://www.sedex.com/become-a-member/meet-our-customers/). Big corporations like TESCO, Dupont, Nestle, Sainsbury's or Unilever included.

I am not Bulgarian, but I know all of this way better than you'll probably ever do. The same type of contracts were common all over Eastern Europe: Romania, Poland, the GDR (that's East Berlin and co, for you) and even the Soviet Union. I am also sure your Portuguese readers will be thrilled to see themselves qualified by a patronizing North American as labor exploiters living in a third-world country with rickety factories.

You people have no shame and never did. But you just proved with trooping colors you also have no culture and no integrity. More reasons to not regret my unapologetic fandom choice.

I expect an angry and very, very vulgar answer to this, even if I chose to not include your name/handle. The stench of your irrelevance crossed an ocean.

#fandom #shitshow

[being-addie]

Online aesthetics and the effects of social media trends

Let's talk about this.

How it can affect young teenagers

Open Tiktok or Instagram and everything on my For You Page now shows "How to achieve a Clean Girl Aesthetic"', "Old Money Aesthetic Hairstyles", "Cottagecore Hobbies", "How to be a Femme Fatale"

It never ends. Trends keep popping up left and right and it's inescapable.

As a young, impressionable teenager, I was, of course, naturally going to be influenced by these ever-changing trends. I'd constantly change my room aesthetic, buy new clothes, and I was never satisfied with my appearance. Why? Because I didn't look like the girls on screen.

News flash. You're never going to look like them. All that content they produce which gets 100k likes is done with excessive attention to detail, expensive lighting and sound equipment, and top-notch editing software. OF COURSE, you can't look like that. It's completely manufactured. It's heartbreaking to see young girls develop body image issues because of the constant bombarding of these "aesthetics" which are basically different beauty standards and stereotypes all wrapped up in a neat little package that is labelled "personality and style". I don't have anything against the concepts of aesthetics. I love how Dark and Light Academia is centred around learning, and how Cottagecore is all about relaxation and not conforming to being part of a 9-5 and just living life. I like how the Clean Girl is focused on being healthy and productive. What I don't like is how all these healthy things, which normal functioning humans should be doing are now turned into "trends" and you must "choose" between them.

Why it's so harmful

Fashion: Since aesthetics keep changing, you're going to find multiple that appeal to you. What happens when you discover you really like cottagecore, but your closet is filled with dark academia tweed? You turn to fast fashion. It's cheap and stylish. But it's horrible for the environment and that floral dress you're wearing was made by a woman in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, while fashion giants like Shein pocket the money.

Makeup: It's always there. Always. You cannot find a "how-to" post regarding aesthetics and makeup is not included. Its always how much blush to apply, why mascara is your best friend, blah blah blah. You know what I want to see? An aesthetic which promotes a clean, fresh face. I do wear makeup, not saying I'm perfect(yes, I wear lip tint and sometimes eyeliner), but it's the ridiculous notion that there's a specific makeup look for each aesthetic, and they say it's not very heavy, but really is concealer, foundation, blush, mascara and lipgloss light makeup?

Other: Then comes the things you should own, the bags, the shoes, the jewellery, the house decor. Did you notice to achieve the look, we're spending money bit by bit? Then you don't even realise it's made a dent in your savings.

Mentality: I hate this part about aesthetics so much. A while ago, I was really interested in Dark Academia and how it was centred around learning and studying. But everything was gloomy and dark and said I should be tired and bitter to achieve this. I'm not a serious person by nature in the first place, but here were blogs telling me to be "mysterious" and how I should be getting only 4 hours of sleep to be true Dark Academia? What is this dystopia? There's this weird obsession with how someone should behave if they like an aesthetic.

Online trends are all consumerism based. It's all to get you to blow your money on things that don't even benefit you.

There's a reason I never include and never will include tags like #clean girl or #pink pilates princess in my posts because it sort of reduces you to a certain aspect. Why confine yourself to these barriers? Wear what you want. Read what you like. The one "aesthetic" I believe in, is "that girl" which in reality is different for everyone, but boils down to being educated, well-mannered, and considerate. I will make a post on this. Being educated and kind is such a flex, not wearing one flowy white dress and "thinking" you're in a meadow. Break out of the pattern of being influenced by algorithms. Don't restrict your identity because of FOMO and the urge to be trendy. You've got this.

<3

#self care #self improvement #self love #level up #level up journey #self love journey #glow up #college #tips and tricks #it girl #that girl #perfect #life #online aesthetics #online #social media #aesthetics

[jackoshadows]

Shein: Fast-fashion workers paid 3p per garment for 18-hour days, undercover filming in China reveals

It is the biggest fast-fashion company in the world, making billions of pounds by unveiling thousands of new designs on its addictive website every day and selling them cheaper than anyone else. Now the first undercover investigation into factories supplying Shein, the Chinese retailer loved by millions of young women in the UK and around the globe, has exposed the disturbing experiences of workers making its clothes. Garment manufacturers in China are often working up to 18 hours a day, being paid as little as 3p per item, with no weekends and only one day off per month, a Channel 4 team has found.

This treatment of workers – who are fined two thirds of their daily wage if they make a single mistake – breaks not only Shein's code of conduct for suppliers but also Chinese labour laws. The company says it will investigate. A woman using the false name of Mei secretly filmed inside two factories where she took on jobs producing the kinds of tops that British shoppers can buy for as little as £1.49. The footage has been shared with i ahead of Untold: Inside the Shein Machine, streaming on All4 from Monday. Women in one factory are found to be washing their hair during their lunch breaks, as they have so little spare time outside of their long shifts. A man who started work at 8am, but is filmed sitting shirtless at his sewing machine after midnight, says he will not finish until 2am or 3am because he needs to complete his batch

Woods says Shein is "head and shoulders" above other fashion brands in the number of "dark patterns" it uses online. "These are behaviours on the website that force you into actions that you might not choose yourself," he explains. "Data is making marketing like a loaded weapon." Shein was contacted for comment by the documentary makers but did not respond on this matter. Data published on 6 April by The Business of Fashion showed that in the year to date, Shein had launched 314,877 separate designs in the US market, compared to 18,343 in the same period by Boohoo. This relentless onslaught suggests customers have more than 3,000 new styles to potentially view every day

The contact arranged for "Mei", one of the journalists in his network, to infiltrate the Shein supply chain in Guangzhou, a south-eastern city with a population of 14 million. Having seen what she discovered, he says: "I have been doing investigative stories in China for 15, 16 years – still [they] exploit workers like dogs. Basically it's worse than years ago."

#Shein #fashion #Labour exploitation #Capitalism #China #Slave Labor

[lovesickbrat]

Do you give fashion advice?

wear what you want

don’t buy from shein

tiktok id horrible for discovering your personal style

if you think you like a trend wait til it blows over before you experiment with it

take inspo from everything

you don’t always need a dupe

color analysis and body typing will only hinder you

#nani.jpeg

[medievalfantasyqueen]

just a random thing I came up with a friend...

Marius: *scrolls through TikTok* Hmm nothing about clocks so far...

*freezes as he suddenly encounters a video of a VERY FAMILIAR face*

Lestat: *kisses camera* Hello girlies, welcome back! Today I am doing my latest Shein haul because Louis wanted it, right Louis?

Louis: *ignoring, reading a book*

Lestat: *pouts and returns to camera and squints brow* Omg mariusderomanus has joined the live... MARIUS HELLO

Marius: *discovers vampire can get migraines*

Armand: *cackling somewhere*

#the vampire chronicles #marius #lestat #louis #armand #tvc BOOKS

[twstbrainrot]

✨And they were roommates... (Part One)✨

We are all well aware of the state of Ramshackle upon move-in day. It reeks of Mesothelioma settlements and black mold. You and Grim managed to yassify the dorms with dollar store wallpaper and $3 Shein fairy lights, but nothing is fixing the underlying structural issues. You aren't in there for a month before calamity strikes. Calamities. Plural.

The first calamity is Grim. You are living with a fucking fire hazard. No, I don't mean he sets something on fire with his magic. The only magic he needs is his own stupidity. He left the oven on.

The second calamity is a flood. Also caused by Grim. After smelling smoke from your room and investigating, you discover that the kitchen is on fire and immediately know who's ass to beat. Grim is upstairs bathing, so you fling open the door to drag him out and demand that he put out the fire.

During the subsequent ass chewing, ass beating, and Sim-like response to the growing inferno, one small detail is forgotten. The bathtub has been left on. Until it isn't forgotten, of course. While you are on the phone begging Azul to provide fire emergency services ("But you haven't paid your monthly $50 fee for this package") and Grim is running in circles frantically blowing on the housefire like a birthday candle, a groaning sound can be heard from upstairs. You both look up in horror as the ceiling splinters with the force of hundreds of gallons of water.

The third calamity is Ramshackle itself. It was built with toothpicks, hot glue, and a little bit of luck. The fact that it has not collapsed in on itself before now is a god damned architectural miracle. After being washed out the front door by the rush of flowing water, you’re deposited on prime seating for the final phase of the shit-show.

House now ablaze, water damaged, and free of its two idiot inhabitants, the structure finally reaches its limits. Ramshackle Dorm gives one final death rattle and begins to sink into the ground. You watch in shock as the sinkhole upon which the dorm had been built claims its victim. After a few moments of silence, you turn to Grim and ask "...did we have natural disaster coverage with Azul?"

After your unfortunate and very expensive eviction, you and Grim are left with only one person to turn to. The absolute least fucking helpful man in Night Raven College: Dire Crowley.

After explaining your ordeal and the position it has left you two in, Crowley simply folds his hands and smiles at you menacingly. “I suppose you expect me to solve this little mess-up? Hmm?” You and Grim exchange nervous glances. “Well I’m not going to! In fact, I think I shall lay most of the responsibility on you two! I hope you like couch surfing, because I don’t have an extra dorm for you to destroy!” Crowley’s displeasure with the destruction of Ramshackle is clear in his shrill voice. “It is up to you to decide which dorm you’ll be staying in, and I better not hear that you’ve ruined another spare room!” Jesus Christ the position this man has put you in. Despite your destructive capabilities, your friends at Night Raven are quite attached to you. You have clear opportunities to stay with any of the seven dorms. But who can you tolerate the most?

(AN: This will be part one of a two part series in which Ramshackle Dorm gets sent off to be with the great real estate agent in the sky, and you need to be housed in another dorm. Who will you pick? Find out in the next episode...)

#twst #twst x reader #twisted wonderland #ace trappola #cater diamond #deuce spade #trey clover #riddle rosehearts #ruggie bucchi #leona kingscholar #jack howl #azul ashengrotto #floyd leech #jade leech #idia shroud #ortho shroud #kalim al asim #jamil viper #malleus draconia #lillia vanrouge #silver #sebek zigvolt #vil schoenheit #epel felmier #rook whatshisname

[bigprettygothgf]

At what point did subcultures with decades of history turn into a paid membership?? "Anyone can be counterculture if you buy preripped jeans and shitty leather vests from shein! (Don't bother with the music there's no money in that)

no literally it so funny all the points these people are arguing is exactly why all these formerly underground subcultures became so commercialised and watered down ALSO literally no one here myself included is saying we dont want them to be these things i WANT more people to discover and get into goth music like can we please take a step back for just a minute

#Anonymous

[briasfreespace]

TYSK: You´re missing out on a lot

TYSK, or Things You Should Know, is a bi-weekly post I intend to share about worldwide news. I am that random factoid friend, and I love sharing new information with people because I see information as power. This is my way of attempting to do my part in sharing and participating in the world and whatnot.

🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞

Insight

I recently watched the film American Fiction, I am a fan of everyone involved and am in love with the premise of the film. I did find a bit of disappointment with Tracee Ellis Ross's character's quick intro and exit. There was more to explore with her character and I was deeply disappointed. The film does well at highlighting the interpersonal issues of Black middle-class families. It asks us to be more nuanced about the lives of Black Americans and the different ways we suffer under capitalism/white supremacy. We need to take a moment to be more curious about who is telling our stories and how we can have more of us in the room. Equity is necessary and best when done right.

News

Yemeni and US/UK conflict is suspected to be caused by Yemen´s stance against the genocide of the Palestinian people.

2. Rihanna´s brand SavageX Fenty is reported to have an ethics rating lower than Sheins. Re/Make´s annual ethics report, the Fashion Accountability Report scored it a 4/150. While doing well for diversity, they noted that there was little information about the care for its workers and the earth. Along with her makeup line, there are reports of child labor law violations, volatile work environments, and a history of using oil-based synthetic products.

3. It was recently discovered after the bodies of 3 Black men were found in a Pauper´s grave in Hinds County, that more than 600 other bodies had been buried there since 2008. Since 2016, over 215 bodies have been placed there in unmarked graves. This information surfaced after a mother had been informed that her son had been killed in a hit-and-run by an off-duty officer.

Art

Maya Angelou´s ¨Caged Bird¨

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind   

and floats downstream   

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and   

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown   

but longed for still   

and his tune is heard   

on the distant hill   

for the caged bird   

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams   

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream   

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied   

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown   

but longed for still   

and his tune is heard   

on the distant hill   

for the caged bird   

sings of freedom.

#black artist #virgo #bthevirgo #blogger #maya angelou #news #palestine #mississippi #savage x fenty #environment

[thetimberchasebranch]

You mentioned that some of the characters were based on Pokémon. Which Pokémon were the characters based off of? Some of them are more obvious than others - I immediately recognized Tichiko as Lucario, for instance - but I'm curious where the rest came from!

(also their designs slap immensely. I hope you know that.)

Akfnsk

I feel like I'm cheating, picking all the easy to answer questions first--

SO, the truth is

The main cast were actually based off all the pokemon and fakemon I had on my team at some point in time that I got super emotionally attached to in a pokemon fan game called Pokemon: Xenoverse (Per Aspera Ad Astra)

I had been thinking about the idea of making them characters and a story for awhile, and I had even started to while I was playing, but then my laptop broke (we literally can't even lift the screen :,) ) and I would never be able to play with that particular team again, and I was super crushed! Sure, I could get the game on my new computer, but it would never be the same, yknow?

That's when I really dived into making these guys their own story!

So, let me tell you what each of these characters were based off of;

Shi-Shi - Shyleon (all 3 forms!)

Karu - Hikooloo (although I finally evolved him shortly before my computer broke,,,)

Lancelot - (shiny) Hercurcules

Vee - gen 1 Eevee

La Bomba - Xenoverse Electabuzz

Shein - Xenoverse Sharpedo

Leona - Xenoverse Ponyta

Leep - Mareep

Feal - (shiny) Feraligatr (I evolved him from a totodile,,)

Lancelot, Vee, Feal, and I think maybe even Leep too, where all pokemon I'd received from events!

Once I started expanding the world, I really liked the idea of sticking to inspiration from Pokemon fan games-- it just seemed like a silly little quirk! But the only other fan games I had been playing I'd started making a separate story based off of them too!

And thats when I discovered the Pokemon Infinite Fusion fan game and its fusion calculator

I thought it would be really silly to use that for the base of the rest of the characters, so, let me tell you who their bases are too;

Aellera - Dragonair/Zoroark

Baena - Charizard/Zoroark

Tichiko - Poliwrath/Luzario

Ripp - Larvesta/Riolu

Kertz - Entei/Donphan

(And I don't know if I've quite introduced all of these guys yet, but--)

Vienna - Vileplume/Roserade

Dusty - Mareep/Duskull

Vein - Houndoom/Genesect (I believe?? I dont entirely remember tbh)

Spatz - Raichu/Sandslash

(I also used the fusion calculator a little bit to help inspire me with Feal and Leep to pull their designs away from their original inspos a little more, but they're still mostly their original bases!)

#text post #oc #original character #original characters #original story #QnA #pokemon #pokemon fan game #pokemon xenoverse #pokemon infinite fusion

[pudgyem]

hi omfg that pajama set is sooo cute, can i ask where u got it?? <3

thank you omg!! it’s from shein!! i got mine in a 4xl

#i know we shouldn’t support them #it’s v hard to find plus size clothes for cheap ):

[serviceseekershub]

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