It is not often I am drawn to look at the front of the Daily Express, but last week's headline ‘The End of Cheap Clothes,' caught my eye.
It was a simple story – a warning from Primark that the days of cheap clothes were gone, driven by a leap in the price of cotton. Hurrah! I thought. I find it completely mindless when you see people struggling around a Primark store, ripping clothes off the pegs and shoving them into huge baskets just because they are cheap. It is not clothes snobbishness on my part – I am as happy as the next person to kit my kids out in two-quid T-shirts for the summer, because I know they will either lose them, grow out of them or ruin them. But that is before you take time to consider the immorali...
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