The Story Behind Clothes

You've seen it. You go walking in the mall and you see a cool shirt, dress or pants. You walk in the store and your first instinct is to look at the price tag. What do you know? That Aero, Hollister, or Abercrombie shirt costs 50 bucks. Why you may ask?
  Clothes are so expensive because it helps pay off the workers who make the clothes. Remind you, this is like the Industrial Age. People are crammed into sweatshops with no heat in the Winter or air conditioning in the Summer. There can be 10-20 workers crammed in one room working on 1-style of clothing. The workers get payed minimum-wage ranging from 5 to 20 cents. No, the don't get to keep any of the clothing either. I guess it's really true that history repeats itself. 
  But there is also another story. You know, Americans are the number-one country ranked with unhealthy people. In China, the largest fry box you can buy at McDonalds is a small (those ones you find in the happy meals). So, stores use the "guilt" trick to get people to not buy their correct size. As a matter of fact, the bigger the size the smaller the waistline. This is used to make you feel extremely fat. It's sad because teenagers everywhere are starving themselves just to fit in a smaller waist line to be defined as "perfect". But really, these teenagers aren't fat it's the consumers that make them who are.

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