Blood Sweat and Tshirts

Following the recent BBC3 documentary blood sweat and t-shirts, in which is follows the journey of 6 teenagers as they travel to the back streets of India making items of clothing which will later be sold on the high streets, in chain fashion stores, such as Primark.

In today's throw away fashion, in which items of cheap high fashion clothing are becoming increasingly more popular with today's fashion concious nation.

This documantry see how the points of view of these teenagers, change as they discover the real truth to how their clothes are produced, before it hits the high streets.

Based in shahi enterprises in New delhi, they take on the jobsand live the lifestyles of what all 4,000 workers have to experince everyday. Working to earn as just 20p a hour, 15 hours a day, and 6 hours a week.

The documentary open up your eyes to the reality of the fashion industry, and how unless we all vow to make a difference things will never change.

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Interesting facts:

• 1,000 machinists stich six days a week just to earn on average 20 p a hour
• Three million garments are manufactured and exported a month
• On average every garment goes through 30 stichers before reaching the uk high street
• The daily target for an factory production is 10,000 garments, which is 300 for each production line
• Every minute there is a collar turned, out a hem every 30 secounds and 50 shirts an hour