Would you pay more for British made undies?

Pennylane

I have just been to the Liberty site and somebody has beaten me to it - with regard to them getting their facts right!

It now reads "made in Britain from the finest quality lace". Maybe they've been reading MSE.:D

beth.stephenson2009

Honestly, yes, yes I would. Why?

Mary Portas isn't promoting/forcing slave labour. She is giving jobs to unemployed people, and no doubt paying them a decent wage. Those £1 knickers in Primark are cheap for a reason- they are made by young children in sweat shops in China/Africa. Yes, I buy clothes that I am aware are probably made in sweat shops- but given the option, I would choose to pay a couple of £ more to support British jobs, and to stop lining the pockets of the child labour industry.

lostinrates

claire16c wrote: »

Yeah she didnt say that on the show, the website is wrong. Also it says on the website a size L is a size 16-18 so it does go up higher than a 14.

That is my error. I was using the liberties size guide, did not see one on the page.

veganline

colino wrote: »

Realistically the market has been tested & over the past 3 decades we as consumers have voted for the cheap prices that imported textiles bring & retailers just love the increased profits international outsourcing brings. (You simply would not believe the landed price for foreign made-up goods against the retail price)..

I'm a bloke so I know that M&S sell T shirts at £6 for the shamefull minimum & £12 for variety. I know I can get UK-made T shirts delivered to me in London in small quantities at £4 made of viscose.

Nobody has ever tried to sell me a T shirt that says "this is made in a democratic welfare state". Quite the opposite. I remember 16½% base rates in the early eighties designed to increase inward investment, up the value of the pound, and reduce the cost of imports. It's all still on the Bank of England website's monetary policy committee web page as a set of arrows on the bottom of a flow diagramme.

People like me write-in to the internet to say X is basics bargain price and Y is posh price and confuse the two. I think that something made in a democratic welfare state that has had a government in the 1980s trying to close all factories is a good thing to buy, whether it's T shirts or knickers. There are plenty of people willing to buy premium-priced products because they're fairtrade, or organic, or simply because they've got M&S Blue Harbour written on them.

Made in the UK, made in a welfare state, and made in a democracy are good brands too I think.