Dorothee
Germany
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>Big international enterprises like ‘Spreadshirt’, ‘Momox Fashion’ or ‘Bonprix’ gave away quite a lot of coupons to their customers this month. I’m sure many didn’t have any use for all these coupons just for clothing and threw them out. To everyone’s surprise however my neighbors (parents of 4 children one of which is still a baby of 9 months and none of which is older than 10) found an old envelope today stuck to their door. It contained coupons belonging to ‘Spreadshirt’, ‘Bonprix’ and ‘Momox Fashion’. Wheter this was a coincidence or someone knew about the four little children living there is unclear. Also it’s unclear if this person who donated this envelope knew that each year some enterprises have a lot of clothes destroyed, because they couldn’t find a customer, meaning that workers in Bangladesh and India who made these clothes were exploited and mistreated more or less for no reason. In the latter case maybe someone just wanted to put at least some sense into this inhumane work by at least finding customers who could really use these coupons (with 4 fast-growing children after all). Anyway we will probably never know! I just wanted to share with you what the lady told me. >For 14 years at least now I’ve had an old shirt in my closet I haven’t worn for years. It is pink and in Germany pink is considered a color for little girls or is associated with feminism. On the other hand I couldn’t donate this thing either as it’s just so old and it would feel like betrayal to donate this shirt knowing that in one year at best it will fall apart. And to use it as a towel to clean and dedust everything it just was too intact. Thank God I now found something they sold as a ‘Decolorizer’ (no translation, just the name of the product). I think it’s some bleach. The writing on the packing promised that if heated just like in the added description it would turn colored textiles into another color. However which colour would be a surprise. Now I have a pale yellow shirt which is less embarrassing for me to wear. So there is no need for me to throw it away. I think they call that ‘upcycling’.
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