Skip the middleman: grate your feet, then mug a migrant
January 26, 2010
I know I’m a little slow off the mark on this one, but as of last April, this £9 plastic shoe was the best-selling item in Primark’s sordid history. I can’t even imagine how long my feet would last in these:
Meanwhile, Primark, the retailer whose clothes are so cheap and unpleasant that even charity shops don’t want them, enjoyed a bumper year in 2009. They’ve even had an an environmental phenomenon named after them!
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Agh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best thing about living in Spain is that I don’t have ubiquitous Primark tat shoved constantly in my face like when I lived in UK, except now they’ve opened two stores here in Barcelona too and my flatmate became a manager in one of them! Double agh! They are the very incarnation of everything I hate about the fashion industry. Sorry, had to rant. You look stunning in your recent post about the skirt nightmare by the way! x
These shoes last approx 5 hours (though that was dancing hours) before they become completely shredded and unwearable. As found out by my friend on her Hen Night.
! It’s like an actual barbie shoe! Just found your blog through a friend of mine who honed in on your fashion on the ration – excellent stuff!
Thanks! I see from your blog that you work in a bookshop. As a bookstore veteran (3 years in the trenches — kids’ books, poetry, travel and crafts), I salute you.
Thanks, I respectfully salute you too, I’ve only notched up one year so far…
Just found your blog via the Sew Weekly. I really look forward to following it. I’m also a US-now-London crafter and could not agree with you more on many of the posts I’ve seen so far. Just the mention of Primark makes my skin crawl. I rarely stop in at the charity shops near me due to the many George and Atmosphere labels they’re selling.
And what’s with all these London girls/young women running around in tiny synthetic dresses with their “leather-like” bomber-style (unlined) jackets? And they have the audacity to complain about how cold it is?
People made fun of me for complaining about the cold when I moved here from Toronto, but it is really difficult to stay warm in a damp cold when most of the clothes on offer are made from cotton (which has practically no insulating properties) or manmade fibers like fake leather, fake fur, acrylic and viscose. But that’s a whole ‘nother blog post.