The more I look the more it becomes apparent that if you are a man and want to buy fairtrade clothing, the best you will manage is a teeshirt with a logo along the lines of "eco-warrior".

All the rest of the Fairtrade clothing Market is all about women, labels and a particular fashion idiom (sophisticated hippy I think).


The reason the faiir trade market iisn't getting anywhere is that there are no fairtrade producers selling straightforward leisure clothes (jeans etc) and no straightforward work clothes and shoes etc.


Eliza, The market that flourishes is the one that has demand. However, without a product there can be no demand.

We simply don't have the choice.

People in developing countries will make whatever product they are given jobs to make.

By developing a faiirtrade industry, you don't take jos away, you create alternative jobs for the parents so that the children don't have to work.

Besides, a child aorking as a slave brings home no money - they are a slave and there is no justifiication for that.