Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

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• Jordan // Oct 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm

  Given that most of my friends are women, I hear an awful lot about the trials and travails of trying to find good bras. It’s a seriously bizarre market. Glad to people putting so much effort into making quality products.

• Brendan I. Koerner // Oct 14, 2009 at 12:37 pm

  Tell the ladies ’bout the Dolls. They make some seriously high-qual goods.

  Also, worth noting that the Dolls do their production in Bangkok, at a factory that treats workers fairly. After some dispiriting years in the garment game, the Dolls wanted no truck with the sweatshops of Guangdong.

• scottstev // Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 pm

  As this article notes, the lovely variety of female shapes with which the good Lord has blessed us, causes havoc with mass manufacturing. Good luck with the line.

  I can imagine that directly engaging a sweatshop for your company is much harder than not thinking too much about sourcing when grabbing a garment at Kohls.

• Brendan I. Koerner // Oct 14, 2009 at 1:49 pm

  Yeah, my wife and her partner def. saw the conditions in Guangdong first-hand during their corporate days. I think what skeeved them out the most wasn’t necessarily the living situations for the workers (think super-cramped dorms), but how the employees were denied any recourse should they have a complaint. My wife came to realize that the factory owners were quite cozy with the local authorities (esp. Communist officials), and could thus operate with total impunity. That meant they had a license to severely mistreat any workers who didn’t precisely toe the line. And that created a creepy culture of fear.

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