![]() This allowed Shein to identify designs trending in the West and produce similar items ready for export in just a few days - a model now known as “ultra-fast-fashion.” There, Xu hired a team of in-house designers and built up a large supply network among local factories. He shortened the company name to Shein and shifted its headquarters from Nanjing to Guangzhou - China’s leading clothing manufacturing hub. The turning point for the company came three years later, when its founder - Xu Yangtian - decided to reinvent the business as a fast-fashion brand. In 2012, it adopted the name and expanded into a broader range of women’s apparel. The firm started out as an e-commerce outfit based in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing in 2008, which focused on exporting made-in-China wedding dresses to the Western market. Despite its spectacular success, the company has a reputation for extreme secrecy, leading one investor to dub it “China’s most mysterious billion-dollar company.” Shein has gone to great lengths to keep its supply chain hidden from the world. “The interests of workers are more likely to be ignored.” “(It’s) a step backward in terms of the protection of workers’ rights,” said Huang Yan, a professor at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou whose research focuses on labor conditions in China. Though Shein is far from alone in using such practices, experts told Sixth Tone that the company’s aggressive business model - and especially its use of an opaque network of subcontractors - is undermining efforts to improve labor conditions in China’s fast-fashion industry. Shein recruits many of the order pickers via dispatch agencies - a controversial practice in China that can prevent workers from defending their rights - staff at the center told Sixth Tone. Many are illegal businesses and have no formal contract with Shein, making it difficult for the company to verify whether workers are well-treated.Īt a major Shein logistics center, meanwhile, warehouse staff said they struggled to cope with the intense work, which can involve walking dozens of kilometers a shift with few rest breaks. These will be the bottom of the pocket and will finish off the pocket.Ĭongratulations! You have just drawn a technical drawing of a double welt pocket.These workshops frequently flout Chinese labor laws and are considered a fire risk, local factory owners and labor experts told Sixth Tone. Finishing the pocket: Draw two small lines that are parallel to each other about 1/4 inch from the bottom of the pocket.This will be the edge of the inner pocket flap. Drawing the inner pocket flap edge: Draw a line from the top of each inner pocket flap mark to the inner welt line.Drawing the inner welt lines: Draw a line that is parallel to the welt line and is 1/4 inch away from it.Drawing the welt lines again: Draw the welt line again, but make it slightly wider than the first line (about 1/2 inch).This will be the edge of the pocket flap. ![]() Drawing the pocket flap edge: Draw a line from the top of each pocket flap mark to the welt line.Drawing the pocket flap marks: Draw two small lines that are parallel to each other about 1/4 inch from the top edge of the rectangle.This will be the line for the welt to follow. ![]()
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