Primark - the New Ghetto Style?

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Westwood said so last Saturday.

With the stampedes and barricades at the smart new Oxford Street branch, is Primark really restoring life to the dog-dead Marble Arch end and bringing it into focus with the Tottenham Court Road ghetto culture?

How long will it be before the Cool Police adopt Primark as a badge and they shove their prices up accordingly?

What's a better use of fifty quid - lots of reasonably priced, functional outfits, or a plastic bag with "This Is Not A Plastic Bag" written on it and nothing actually inside it?

Why the stampede at Oxford Street when there's been a perfectly decent branch in Tooting High Street for years? Or indeed in Hamilton, where it used to be called Penneys and Hughie Green opened the shop?

Is Primark the final mark in the fashionista fascists' coffin?

WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

wasnt all this 2 years ago?

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Tottenham Court Road ghetto culture"

it's only been a month but it sounds like things have been changing in that london.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Good news for sweat shop workers everywhere!

― Tom D., Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, old news! over the past three years or so primark's been replacing the charity shop as go-to for cheap elements of wardrobe that set off yr fancy accessorising (it's moved charity-shop digging a step up). primark top matched with ridic expensive jeans is standard. the ox st shop means it's been democratised almost, now available for those who do their clothes shopping up town, who'd rather the big H&M and the big topshop, and aren't devoted to the bargain and the 'i got it at primark!' enough to schlep to hackney central or wherever. o no the kids like it now, better move on to something else.

― c sharp major, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Gotta love HYS:

Well very many of you have absolutely no idea how the rest of the real (3rd) world works. It's all very wonderful to have tea-breaks and minimum wages and 40 hour weeks and nice mortagages to come home to. We are the privileged minority (despite feeling the pinch recently).

go out there and travel the world. Buy some clothes that a kid has made...at least it stopped her and her family dying. And even if you think your clothes are ethically sourced many of them will be unethically subcontracted

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&forumID=4990&edition=1&ttl=20080623095549&#paginator

― James Mitchell, Monday, 23 June 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, that whole HYS plumbs new depths of delusion and self-justification. What a harsh place the UK is.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago)

Correction.

What a harsh place ~~the UK is.~~bunch of motherfuckers some Brits are.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:12 (sixteen years ago)

Correction to the correction.

What a harsh ~~place the UK is.~~bunch of motherfuckers some Brits are.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:13 (sixteen years ago)

Correction...

Not all of it is harsh. A lot make a fair point...

Which is more ethical, cheap sourced cheap priced, or cheap sourced 'label priced?

It's like the old 'dwarf' thing, they used to get employment in sideshows, then the opinion changed against that sort of thing, and now they are unemployed.

Of course, that does not make it right, but if primark doubled their prices and showed that all the difference was going to employ adult workers in that same place, then yeah.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:22 (sixteen years ago)

Note my use of the word 'some'.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago)

true, but it was the "whole hys" I was replying to, prev to the corrections to yr last sentence.

I only read the first page of it, I guess the rest were "yeah, but hey cheap stuff!" ilk.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:32 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I really shouldn't immerse myself in it, it's not worth it.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

Typical of the BBC and the Islington liberal elite to be outraged by this. Why should you force your standards on other cultures.
These kids are helping to earn money for food and support their families.

What are the other options for them, crime, prostitution.......starvation!!!

NOT PC, liverpool

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bonus points for including islington there

― DG, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

I think the 'stick to beat the argument with' was started as it was Alexa Chung who did the first documentary highlighting this, which made the temptation to yell "yeah and you can 'afford' the expensive exploitative fash"

.. except I did not see the docu so maybe I'm being unfair.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago)

think channel 4 pulled the primark doc at the last minute

― nari, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:50 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, and replaced it 'Without a Paddle' - which I gave up on. That was seriously one pile of crap.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 June 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

TCR ghetto culture?

― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

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