Re: The Politics of Clothes

From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:19:26 GMT

"jim blair" <jeblair@XXXfacstaff.wisc.edu> wrote in
news:ccvhul$5oq$4@news.doit.wisc.edu:

> The recent article was concerned with where clothes are made and by
> who. The lament
> was that today shoppers can't find union-made-in America unless they
> look long and hard

http://www.usstuff.com/index.htm - pass it on.

> those clothes are cheap, because they are made in "sweatshops" by
> people who are paid low
> wages by US standards.

I dont mind the low wages, its when I read our GREED causes a little girl
in this sweatshop to get acid poured on her face because she is not
working as hard as another little girl, if they would have some basic
OSHA laws over there that were enforced that would be good. Working kids
in that kind of fear just can't be good for anyone.

> FAIR TRADE label, but the selection of these is very limited.

www.ftc.gov - look under MADE in the USA - it is a bull*** claim with no
real enforcement - anyone can basically say MADE in the USA.

> made was that hemp is the preferred cloth, because it can be grown
> with less harm to the
> environment.

To hell with clothes, come to Land O Lakes florida and let me show you a
life without clothes - skin is good, it is natural, and it doesn't take
child slaves in china to make. Fatty women ashamed of thier looks will
never jump on this trend, image has become too important. Such Vanity.

> the "energy crisis" and concern for the "environment" (remember
> those?).

I envy all you hippy's, all that peace and free love - I go up to a girl
and say peace and free love and she calls the cops on me for attempted
rape :-(

> And (if dryers are used) cotton consumes a lot more energy in the
> wash/dry cycle, as
> compared to polyester, and the shirts wear out after fewer wash
> cycles.

What about silk?

> If ideas about what constitutes "wearing your conscience" can change
> so much in
> just 30 year, how can anyone predict what will be considered PC in
> 2035?

I know they just built a new nudist colony in florida, more are in the
planning stages, mommy and daddies taking kids to this new lifestyle free
from clothing - THe hilton bitch did a show on one colony here in
florida. I just saw on TV where there are shirts with LCD panels built
into the t shirt, someone walking behind you in the forest can watch tv
on your shirt while they follow you, personally TRON was always my
favorite type of clothing, but it burns energy to run all that lighted
fiber in your clothes.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060186321/ref=pd_sim_books
_1/103-0886781-4313407?v=glance&s=books

What will be PC in 30 years though, first it was what was made, then who
made it, maybe next will be how it is made, handmade or machinemade -
like a jaguar and bentley cost more because they are handmade instead of
mass produced like a honda. Who designed it - hilfiger or jaclyn smith.
Who wears it, kobe bryant and tiger woods or bill gates. I saw a shirt
that monitors your vital signs, has a tracking chip in it, maybe the
orwells wont wear it, maybe if society gets more violent people will want
to wear body armor shirts, maybe as tasers become more prolific people
will want to wear anti taser clothing, maybe the cops will ban this
clothing etc etc

Futureshock by toffler, possibly things will change faster and faster and
to try and predict anything is a waste of time, the rate of change
overwhelms many people. Forget about it, live for today, tomorrow will
take care of itself. 

-- 
Government policy in interest rates, and on finance generally, has been 
marked by vacillation, wishful thinking, electoral expediency of the most 
shameful type towards the end of last year, contortions and 
contradictions, all to accommodate the redneck economics of the National 
Country Party. (Harsard Aug.27 1981)