# Buying Non-Sweat-Shop Clothes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-non-sweat-shop-clothes/233972>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-non-sweat-shop-clothes/233972 "2004-03-12T21:43:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![gregongie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gregongie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregongie)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-non-sweat-shop-clothes/233972/1 "2004-03-12T21:43:54Z")

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Is there any certain brand of clothes that does not utilize child labor/sweat-shop labor for its manufacturing? Same with shoes (aside from New Balance, who has about 40% of it’s factories still in the US, IIRC). Or at the very least, is there a clothes brand that treats its overseas employees moderately well?

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**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-non-sweat-shop-clothes/233972/2 "2004-03-13T00:45:31Z")

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Here are 2 companies I’m familiar with

These folks make & sell t-shirts  
[http://www.americanapparel.net/mission/](http://www.americanapparel.net/mission/)

These folks make & sell women’s underwear (Link is not work safe but not erotic.) and casual clothes

[http://www.decentexposures.com](http://www.decentexposures.com)