“Sin City” sounds like the most exciting trade show ever
Amber Weekes
If you think it would suck to be an impoverished child in a third world country tasked with slaving away to make sneakers or overcoats for the first world, imagine being a starving child tasked with making penis shaped pool floats or assless chaps for the Western World. You don’t have toilet paper or dinner, but some chick in Milan has the leopard print negligee you spent 10 minutes embroidering.
The New York Times ran a story yesterday about AQTH, a Pakistani company that makes leather fetish wear. The company was started with $800 by two brothers who are now earning more than a million a year in profits.
The Times article has a link to a well produced video about AQTH. I found it really interesting that none of their manufacturing staff have any idea what the products they’re making are used for—they think they’re making beach hammocks and body bags for the US military in Iraq (were I an Iraqi civilian casualty of the US occupation in Iraq, I would totally want to be put to rest in a black leather body bag with “puppy” written in rhinestones on it).
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