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keepsdiary:

dearcassandra:

All this shopping recently got me to thinking…

I always cringe a bit when I see things like this, especially when people outside of the industry see it. It makes the clothing industry look completely evil, but markups exist in EVERY business out there. Otherwise it’s not a business. I can make a graph about how many pennies it cost to produce the alcohol you’re paying $10.00 for at a bar, or how you theoretically are overcharging your consulting employer by 100% because you are not producing a physical product.

Please remember that markups exist so people like me and those that are working to produce these products can make a living. We to need to pay bills, buy food and pay people we employ.

Everything Peter said-> that markup from “cost” to “wholesale” means the designer gets paid for bringing that t-shirt baby into the world.

However, and this has been my problem with Everlane before, customarily, mark-ups are 2.5 at the high end. So how they get from $15 wholesale to $50 retail is really beyond me. Also, remember the markup from wholesale to retail means the shopgirl/guy who sold you that t-shirt gets paid.

So, if you as a consumer demand $5 t-shirts from H&M, you are basically telling me (and everyone else in the supply-chain) to go fuck myself and you want me to do my job for free. Slight simplification, but you get my point.