The True Cost

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We care about our image, don't we? Don't we follow the latest trends, with a passion of an addict watch fashion blogs and instead of visiting a museum, a library or enjoying a trip outside the city, we visit shopping centers? Clothes are fun. The same trainers change every year for a slightly different design, the same white T-shirt has right now a little bit different cut and, instead of classic colors, we are bombarded by pastels or hippy/boho fringes. It's all for the pleasure of the third world countries. We deserve it. We work hard, and while buying a flat or covering our medical expenses might be hard, there's still a chance of buying a nice outfit from our favorite chain store. 
It will make you feel better and it will make you look pretty. But as with every fleeting feeling of the contemporary world: have you ever thought about people who are behind your clothes? Have you ever thought about the determinism of your birth, which made you a lucky buyer and the millions of less fortunate: the abused makers of your whim? The True Cost. 


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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.