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We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.
But there is an almost Jekyll and Hyde quality to them: The companies that make our low-cost clothes may produce them in dangerous sweatshops.
Their clothes and bedcovers were made of cotton, not wool, and an open hole served as the cell’s lavatory.
In 2014, the British current-affairs program Exposure found evidence of children as young as 13 working in factories (often under harsh conditions) producing clothes for retailers in the United Kingdom.
And journalists from The Australian Women’s Weekly found girls as young as ten stitching clothes for top Australian brands.
Look at and feel the clothes.’”
Ah yes, in a world in which ten million children die every year from avoidable, poverty-related causes, and greenhouse-gas emissions threaten to create hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we should be visiting Paris boutiques and feeling the clothes.
If people were really concerned about defensible moral values, they wouldn’t be buying designer clothes at all.
If one visits a friend in a Delhi suburb, one will notice on the side streets an istri wallah with a wooden cart that looks like it was designed in the sixteenth century, using a coal-fired steam iron that looks like it was invented in the eighteenth century, to press clothes from the neighborhood.
Both teams would be parachuted into a remote African forest, without any equipment: no matches, knives, shoes, fish hooks, clothes, antibiotics, pots, ropes, or weapons.
Nowadays, women have the right to take their clothes off, but not to put them on.”
They must avoid the “emperor’s trap” of hearing only about the beauty of their new clothes.
The emperor has no clothes, imported or domestic; and, apparently, he has no competent economic advisers, either.
Though the relative weights may differ, all individuals want more and better food, clothes, shelter, vacations, and other experiences.
You do not do it to get more food or clothes or houses.
Barbers, clothes shops, fruit stalls.
After all, it is cheap and abundant; we never lack enough of it to clean our clothes, manufacture our goods, water our plants, cook our food, or flush our toilets.
Soldiers had no clothes to protect them from freezing cold.
But others have been successfully targeted by luxury-goods manufacturers and credit-card companies, which benefit from the way that mass culture ties certain kinds of consumerism – the latest designer clothes, this season’s “it” bag, the right highlighting, and even the trendiest sports car – into a narrative of successful femininity.
All told, Trump has governed like a plutocrat in populist clothes – that is, a pluto-populist.
Fashion channels have been taken off the air for showing models in revealing clothes.
Indeed, they are particularly common in the Middle East, owing partly to the prevalence of skin-covering clothes and a cultural habit of staying out of the sun.
In other words, “it was an old-fashioned run in new clothes.”
They joked darkly about being forced to wear blue stars on their clothes, speculating that the 1990s could one day be seen as an Anglo-Saxon version of Germany’s ill-fated Weimar period.
Dr. Jiang Yanyong may become a millionaire, wear any clothes he likes, redecorate his living room, even buy a car, but he cannot inform the public about an epidemic or write government officials an honest letter of admonition.
They also produce materials for clothes, oils for soaps and lubricants, fruits, and other foods, such as cocoa.
By stealing the economic policy clothes of the Tories, Blair exposed the ambivalent posture of the Conservative Party in Britain.
In Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, the emperor had no clothes; he was not stripped of them.
Clothes, too, are now generic in today's Russia, as in China under Mao--a blue fatigue.
In the year that the Socialists are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the May 1968 demonstrations against de Gaulle, they are also trying to steal his diplomatic clothes by proclaiming themselves the defenders of the independent French foreign policy that he championed.
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