Is Victoria's Secret Sweatshop Labor?

Radar   |  Sarah Horne   |   November 28, 2007 06:14 PM


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With all the shiny angel supermodels prancing around in thongs and pillow talk of curve-enhancing bras, lingerie giant Victoria's Secret seems pretty innocuous. Well, except for the fact that it's produced by Bangladeshi workers in Jordan who are subjected to totally harsh conditions that don't sound remotely sensual.

Sure, we know a lot of the crap we buy is assembled by compromised foreign workers, and yet we buy it because that's what America is all about. Or something. But there's something rather sad about reports in WWD today that sewers at D.K. Garments, a subcontractor for Victoria's Secret, were "slapped and beaten, not paid their full overtime pay and labored from 7 a.m. to as late as 10 p.m., seven days a week with one day off every three or four months."

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- Nyland8 I'm a Fan of Nyland8 90 fans permalink
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:49 AM on 11/30/2007

HOLD ON!!! this all crap is based on lies i work in the DK factory in JORDAN...and there is no suck thing happened there,by the way the works have a free choice to work extra hours and the working shift in the factory is 8 hrs. + lunch break! they work Friday's (official holiday in JORDAN) by there choice and maybe 10% of workers work on Friday's, and for those 6 workers which have taken by police to jail they were making groups and spreading rumors all around the factory so the works goes on strike... so plz if u don't have any approved info. don't put suck lies and start to spread the rumors... and anyone who wants to contact me this is my cell phone # +962795662230
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:58 AM on 11/30/2007
- marko77 I'm a Fan of marko77 33 fans permalink

Victoria Secret garments made under sweatshop conditions? No shit??? What a surprise!!!

Most of the clothes made in the world today is made in sweatshop conditions in glorified work camps where people are paid pennies and treated like prisoners.

Some people gotta get filthy rich and the vast majority gotta get exploited. So sez the prick lords of this new "flat earth"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:54 PM on 11/29/2007

HuffPo policy: two tit shots per day.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 11/29/2007
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I doubt the perpetually yeast encrusted stank hos that wear this stuff(or the pathetic old men that give them as gifts) really give a damn. The only thing that would deter this customer base would be a liberal coating of finely ground glass to the supposedly cotton panels that protect their "ladybits"(aka large and odiferous tuna flaps).

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 PM on 11/29/2007
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So Huffpo features this crap and then claims to take the high road when it comes to the death of Henry Hyde (who had no such reservations himself).

Whole damn site is becomeing one big Style Section.

Yuck.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:16 PM on 11/29/2007

Gee while shopping in American store's it would be nice to see a label stamped MADE IN AMERICA!JOB'S FOR THE UNDEREMPLOYED IN THIS NATION ARE NEEDED AND NEEDED NOW.OBAMA08

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 11/29/2007
- PeteBogs I'm a Fan of PeteBogs 8 fans permalink

I don't know if they use sweatshops, but when I encounter a woman wearing VS, wherever I happen to be turns into a sweatshop.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 AM on 11/29/2007
- JScott I'm a Fan of JScott 21 fans permalink

'Sure, we know a lot of the crap we buy is assembled by compromised foreign workers, and yet we buy it because that's what America is all about'

This is typical of the fluff/celeb/pr CORPORATE press to lightly dismiss all of this off as 'that's what America is all about'. As a US citizen I am apalled and I don't buy it. It's total BS. THAT IS NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT YOU ASSHOLES!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 11/29/2007

As long as we see tits & ass who cares?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 AM on 11/29/2007
- BOBONDE I'm a Fan of BOBONDE 4 fans permalink

WHEN WALKING AROUND THE MALL, THE MOST FUN PART IS SWINGING CLOSE TO THE VICTORIAS SECRET STORE AND SEEING THOSE SEXY MANAQUINS DRESSED UP WITH SWIM SUITS OR LINGERIE!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:54 AM on 11/29/2007
- Overd0g I'm a Fan of Overd0g 13 fans permalink

It sure makes me sweat.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:53 AM on 11/29/2007
- zull2 I'm a Fan of zull2 40 fans permalink
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If Victoria's Secret, heck, even the majority of the apparel industry, isn't sweatshop labor now, they certainly will continue getting closer to that mark. Why? The value of the dollar. While the dollar devalues, those offshore factories are going to be continuing to cut costs, including in areas such as safety and paychecks, in order to maintain the cost of their products. US companies are paying foreign manufacturers X amount of dollars, and that value is converted into the local currency. If X amount of dollars, at the value of the dollar 5 years ago, purchased Y amount of product, then theoretically X amount of dollars at a devalued rate would purchase a lesser quantity of product. If the workers are being paid in local currency, then the dollar won't convert to quite as much, and the costs of running those operations will go up.

Before anyone thinks that's going to end outsourcing...nope. The dollar would have to fall a heck of a long way for those companies who've already made that investment to pull those jobs back here...and then, we'd just have those sweatshops over here and not over there. But the dollar would have to be seriously approaching the value of the peso for that to happen, and it's going to take a lot more than we've ever seen for that to happen.

Well, either that, or we're going to see those products get anywhere from 20% to 50% more expensive. The major companies know that would kill their business, and shoppers (as they are doing in increasing numbers) will continue to focus on value outlets and buying clothing that was made in REAL sweatshops.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:37 AM on 11/29/2007
- ceasenake I'm a Fan of ceasenake 8 fans permalink

The problem with deciding a factory is a sweatshop is that for some of the people there this may be the best job they have ever had.

If not for the cheap labor the factory would not be there. That's why most industries have left the US.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:05 AM on 11/29/2007

It's true! I went to the local Victoria's secret shop and sweated up a storm!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:59 AM on 11/29/2007
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