Cheap Monday made in sweatshops?

[Guest Airjamie]

While i was out totally not scoring gash, I just read an article in a Swedish daily paper that published a report about manufacturing of clothes and sweatshops. It did not look very good. Iam a total weenie and care about shit like this. Boo Hoo.

Every brand covered in the report had sweatshop manufacturing.......with one exception...NUDIE JEANS of course!!!! CAUSE WERE SO FUCKING CRAZY ABOUT HAVING JEANS THAT STOLE THEIR BACK POCKET EMBROIDERY FROM FUCKING PACSUN!!!!!!

Nudie Jeans strictly follows their policy of only manufacturing their clothing in controlled factories. That is why they are not making any clothes in China.

The other brands covered in the report are: Acne, Whyred, J.Lindeberg, Bjorn Borg, Tiger of Sweden, Weekday (Cheap Monday), WE, Svea and Filippa K. These brands do not live up to their code of ethics.

Aren't we all happy we wear Nudie Jeans - the leader of ethics. Shit like this being posted by a moderator proves that this board is mad gay. We are where rejects from superfuture, like that thirteen year old kid who was the emo equivalent of little bow wow go when they cant take the big boys making fun of them.

So uh what the fuck? Not that i give a shit about slave labor or anything, but im pretty sure cheap monday makes a big deal about making all of their jeans themselves in their shop or whatever. That was kindof part of the appeal to me. Does this mean theyve started to mass produce?

[tweeds]

isn't it kind of hard to make large quantities in your backyard? i'm sure all brands massproduce...and that thing about Nudie and ethics is just superficial crap. okay, i don't mean to be so harsh on it, but it's ridiculous.

[Guest Airjamie]

i don't mean to be so harsh on it

I do. Ethics is a lie made up by people who never got corner offices. Horray for America.

.....but about cheap monday, I fully realize that it would be next to impossible for the guys to reach current production levels themselves considering the fucking sea of hot early teenage (hey its totally legal there, and if its legal, why the fuck not) tang they mustive drowned in when their company took off. However, considering the fact that their whole brands success is staked on their "DIY OH SO FUCKING PUNK WE MAKE THEM OURSELVES" ethos, then id think they wouldnt want to go and fuck it up.

[horriblyjollyjinx]

However, considering the fact that their whole brands success is staked on their "DIY OH SO FUCKING PUNK WE MAKE THEM OURSELVES" ethos, then id think they wouldnt want to go and fuck it up.

But it isn't. They're succesfull because they sell nice clothes for cheap.

They sold 200 000 pairs of jeans in 2005, so no, they're not making those themselves, and they never claimed to. They have printed some tshirts themselves though.

[sneakeraddict]

cheap monday do say they still make jeans "in the back of the shop on their knees".

I have read that several times on different websites (possibly even on their own website as well), so either the report is lying or they are lying.

Anyway, it will say on the tag. I think all manufactured clothes are required to state where they are made.

[horriblyjollyjinx]

cheap monday do say they still make jeans "in the back of the shop on their knees".

I have read that several times on different websites (possibly even on their own website as well), so either the report is lying or they are lying.

Anyway, it will say on the tag. I think all manufactured clothes are required to state where they are made.

You sure it said jeans specifically? CM has said many times that one reason for their low prices is that the same factory makes the denim and also sews the jeans together.

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Alright, checked their website now. It says that they make jeans and shirts themselves, but I don't believe this.

[tweeds]

so we're all in agreement then? cheap monday makes cheap clothes, whether in the back of the shop or in a whitelit factory space, that sell well and gather plenty of controversy.

actually i don't like CM at all. cheap denim that feels cheap.

[pacioli]

can you define the kind of sweatshop you mean?

not all white light mass production facilities necessarily fall into sweatshop definition. That is not all of these facilities work their laborers to death in horrible working conditions and pay them very little.

[tweeds]

that's not for Airjamie to define, since the original post came from outside and far away...swedish daily newspaper, it says. i'm sure much of the meaning of "mass produced" got exaggerated into "sweatshop" along the way.

also, people seem to think that all of china is a giant sweatshop, that might be another reason for the strange mynudies forum post.

[sneakeraddict]

yeah not everything made in China necessarily means 'sweatshop'.

It is just cheaper to produce there because of China's wages.

Not that I think that necessarily bodes well for the quality of them however.

[Guest Airjamie]

What i think needs to be addressed is the fact that they are betraying their brand identity while at the same time not giving a shit about quality. Good business sense dictates that a jump to a larger production scale, when done by a small "house brand" such as cheap monday, should never be done at expense of quality. Now, we all know cheap mondays quality was not good to begin with, and I definately dont think it would have got any worse, as a matter of fact, in a professional mass produced environment, the quality should have improved, but to return to the central issue, jumping on a large scale manufacturing/distribution system while not improving quality betrays their brand identity with no percievable product improvement. This is what we in the industry like to call "Fucking up".