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Embroided Fashion Latches on to Child Slavery

Most people these days are familiar with the term ‘boho’ and the look was made famous within the UK and US with celebrities such as Sienna Miller. However, what the fashion world does not want you to know is that the clothes are made in India by many child slaves.

These child slaves have been sold by their families in order to make money and meet a demand of ever increasing Indian Zari embroidery in Delhi. The sales have increased by a supposedly 60% which has meant that extra work has been needed to meet the demand and families are only too happy to sell their children for the extra money.

The fashion manufacturers within the UK and the US claim that they knew nothing of the child slavery going on and that they only contracted work out to India to meet the increased demand. Many may argue that they took their business to India because of the cheaper prices, but either way children are still being used as slaves in order to meet this demand.

It is thought that more than 100,000 children work up to 14 hours a day to meet this new boho chic demand. The workshops they are forced to work in are filthy and conditions are anything but glamorous. As well as being forced to work, for all their hard work they get the equivalent of 3 pence per hour.

With this new evidence coming to light, it is certainly time to sit back and wonder whether fashion is really worth the plight of all of those innocent children. Is it ever right to expect children to work for 14 hours a day earning 3 pence an hour, just so we can have the latest ‘boho chic’?