A quality kilt is a complicated garment to assemble, much to complicated for the sweat shop production lines of Hilfiger's "empire."
"Last year a documentary on "Life and Debt" in Jamaica showed as Tommy Hilfiger and Hanes benefited from the tax-free labor of Jamaican workers earning the equivalent of $30 every two weeks in the country's Free Trade Zones."
From http://www.she-net.com/nosweat/hanessweatshops.htm
Or read CNN http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/14/sweatshops/
And from England http://www.ethicalmatters.co.uk/arti...e=Exploitation
Hilfiger is mentioned near the end of this article.
I grew up working in a sweatshop...for free...a famiy business then. Probably no where as bad as the overseas sweatshops, but I know what it is to be ten years old working hard in a factory.
So, sorry, anything Tommy Hilfiger has to say about kilts, made by craftsmen and factories who treat their employees fairly and pay them well, rings hollow.
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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