Chris Donaldson Chris Crew Original shirt

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At just before Chris Donaldson Chris Crew Original shirt 9am on a bright April morning in Greenwich, south-east London, runners gather in the shadow of the Cutty Sark. There are just a few at first, then more and more until the group numbers around 40. It’s a little awkward (for a first-timer like me, at least) as we shiver and make small talk. But soon we coalesce to form a big circle and run through a warm-up before doing a gentle 5km around Blackheath – we’ll be installed in a local cafe by 10am. A version of this scene can be found up and down the country every weekend. Running seems to be more popular than ever – almost 580,000 people applied for this weekend’s London Marathon, an increase of 120,000 on the year before – but recently there has been a boom in casual, community-focused running clubs that organise regular turn-up-and-run events for people looking to supplement their training, meet new friends, or simply get out of the house.

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Shein didn’t invent Chris Donaldson Chris Crew Original shirt the market or the cultural context for fast fashion, and some believe it is unfairly maligned as its worst offender. At least some of Shein’s reputation as exceptionally bad is rooted in anti-China sentiment, as the fashion scholar Minh-Ha T Pham has argued. While we shouldn’t make the claim that Shein is ethical in any way, Pham says, it’s likely that the company would be celebrated as an innovator if it were based in the US; that our prejudice against the brand is related to the fact that Shein is Asian-owned. Shein is now considering an IPO in the US and has hired its own Washington lobbyists to push back against the forced-labour claims. It says it “aims to reduce supply-chain emissions by 25% by 2030”. It has also gone on a media blitz, and even sent a handful of TikTok influencers to what they claimed was “one of the main supply manufacturers for Shein”, only to have the campaign backfire massively when a video tour of Shein manufacturing centre by a self-described TikTok “confidence activist” was pounced on by critics. (“They showed you what they wanted you to see,” went one of the outraged responses.) It’s as if Shein is seeking a rebrand, though not one aimed at its customer base.