Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. very poor quality
2. uses garzillion unnecessary plastic wraps and packaging
3. Fit is off (unless you are skinny like a skinny Chinese girl)
4. waaay too trendy therefore you will only like it for a very short period of time (maybe a month?)

If it's too good to be ture...(you know the rest)

My sisters’ daughters buy from them all the time. Fit is fine and they have received no “bugs in packages.” And who cares if it’s “waaay too trendy?” It’s cheap as hell. Not like it needs to last for years for a $5 shirt.

Don’t you feel bad contributing to textile waste?

Anonymous wrote:1. very poor quality
2. uses garzillion unnecessary plastic wraps and packaging
3. Fit is off (unless you are skinny like a skinny Chinese girl)
4. waaay too trendy therefore you will only like it for a very short period of time (maybe a month?)

If it's too good to be ture...(you know the rest)

My sisters’ daughters buy from them all the time. Fit is fine and they have received no “bugs in packages.” And who cares if it’s “waaay too trendy?” It’s cheap as hell. Not like it needs to last for years for a $5 shirt.

It is associated with Bama RushTok for me.

No. Please

Also troubling, potential lead issues: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1956937795504

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/health-canada-recall-shein-kids-jacket-1.6279903

I know that lots of fast fashion has problems with slave labor, but with Shein you can be sure you are supporting slave labor if you buy it.

Confession time.
Who is ordering from Shein, their ads are everywhere on DC mom?
Are you ordering for yourselves or your daughters?

Thanks PP!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Enjoy it while it lasts. China’s future is unstable as the world deglobalizes. They have serious problems ahead with their zero Covid lockdown policy and a demographic time bomb.

Could you explain more? This is really interesting to me- not being facetious at all.

PP is taking two real problems but overstating their long term impact on the Chinese economy. First, China has a fairly draconian lockdown policy to prevent Covid. When infections crop up, they lock-down nearly all activity in the area. In part this is due to poor vaccination rates and a poorly performing vaccine (Sinovac). While these occasional shutdowns impact Chinese exports to some degree, There's no real reason to believe they will have a long term impact on the Chinese economy, assuming we don't see a more deadly, resistant covid mutation emerge.

The demographic time bomb refers to two problems that came out of the one-child per family policy. First, there are more boys than girls. Given the cultural preference for boys, more girls were placed for adoption or in the worst cases there were instances of infanticide. This skewed the population to around 1% more boys than you might otherwise expect. The issue is even worse in India (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/). It's unfortunate and will probably cause a certain degree of social instability, but won't seriously impact the economy.

The larger problem is that the (former) policy limiting families to one child is a nightmare because eventually it drastically skews the demographics of the population to having many more older, non-working people than younger people. This does have the potential to negatively impact China's ability to supply the world cheap exports, but in all likelihood they will find solutions or textile manufacturing will move to India, Vietnam, or other places. China still has a massively large population of low cost labor to draw upon, even as they wrestle with these demographic issues, and every incentive to further automate if labor supply becomes constrained.

Anonymous wrote:Enjoy it while it lasts. China’s future is unstable as the world deglobalizes. They have serious problems ahead with their zero Covid lockdown policy and a demographic time bomb.

Could you explain more? This is really interesting to me- not being facetious at all.

Enjoy it while it lasts. China’s future is unstable as the world deglobalizes. They have serious problems ahead with their zero Covid lockdown policy and a demographic time bomb.

Anonymous wrote:
I've posted this before but for some reason this company keeps sending me bikinis. I'm 65, not slim, and have never bought anything from them. Several times a year I get the most outrageous, tacky bikinis in the mail that would not fit a toddler. My family finds it hilarious.

Ok, I just read the article. I guess I'm supposed to pose in this free wear and tik tok it. It would go viral -for all the wrong reasons, but whatever gets you views I guess.

I've posted this before but for some reason this company keeps sending me bikinis. I'm 65, not slim, and have never bought anything from them. Several times a year I get the most outrageous, tacky bikinis in the mail that would not fit a toddler. My family finds it hilarious.

I buy from Shein. Yeah. It's anonymous, so I'll say it. A lot of the stuff is awful, but I've actually gotten some of my favorite clothes from them too. There is this one dress I have from them that is my favorite and they stopped making it. It was like 13 bucks and is starting to pill now, and if I'd know, I would have bought 5 of them. I actually buy from the "curve" section because I'm a 14 and half of the stores I shopped at closed during the pandemic. They have a lot of options for bigger women that aren't super dowdy. BUT they probably do use child labor, and yes, some of their sizing and construction are totally weird. I often buy items in two sizes. I buy like 150-200 dollars worth of stuff at a time and then try it all on and ship what I don't want back. And 200 bucks buys you a lot at Shein.

DD has a bunch. She's short and skinny, and it's one of the few places where she easily fits into pretty much everything. We have had zero quality issues. It's on par with clothes from Old Navy, H&M, etc., but with a much better selection, and prices. Ethics are likely the same as pretty much every other retailer that buys from Chinese companies that aren't certified ethical.