Tamara wrote: <Our Goodwill store quite often sports brand-new, 4-times-reduced clothes with WalMart tags still on them. Like you say, it's always clothes in odd sizes (and also in odd colours). But... The smallest sizes don't fit people here, the largest sizes (what my friends in Poland call "whale sizes") wouldn't fit anyone in South East Asia. OTOH, if WalMart (and their likes) donated the whale sizes to US-based Goodwill, and the fairy sizes to SE Asia, it might do some good all around... :)>
Stores won't dispose of clothing with their labels still on because they'd find people trying to get a refund on something faulty or an exchange on even perfect items they had bought cheaply elsewhere - you don't need a receipt here to prove a purchase, the company's label in the garment would be sufficient. It would get sold labelless to clearance businesses or go for shredding into rags for recycling into other products. Probably my complaint is because there are very few shops that sell "whale" sizes, which is what I need so I can't benefit from the sales. They stop at UK size 16 (US 14), although some are now going as far as UK 18 (US 16) - much too small for me. The bulk of what's in the shops is size 10 (US 8) or 12 (US 10) or, as I call them, anorexic sizes:-), which are what's in the sales. Common sense says that if that's what's in the sales, then there are too many of those sizes being produced and not enough of the larger ones. But, as you say, common sense is not the primary rule. Many of those who survived and returned to the UK last night were arriving either with no clothes or with clothes that they'd been wearing for the past 5 days. They were received for medical checks and given clean new clothing, which had obviously been donated by some organisation with a conscience. There is one local manufacturer who is sending two and a half thousand T-shirts to Asia, and I applaud him. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
