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August 15, 2008 | By Pamela Stitch | © zimbabwemetro.com ⋅
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FASHION
Mr Caballero’s name is renown in the South African Fashion Industry for his ability to mix high fashion and utility. His latest clothes boosts styles that can “withstand shots from 9mm pistols to AK-47s and clients fearing knives can pay extra for stab-proofing” and also remain fashionable. His clothing line will include “suits, suede and leather jackets, raincoats, shirts, vests and denim ware for both men and women.”
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa is popular for her beautiful touristy sites as well as notorious for her high crime rates. I believe it might be safe to hypothesize that his muse for the creation of this line might be the high crime rates within South Africa, his need to protect people and of course, the huge financial gain that can be gotten from his line.
THE RIDDLE
This clothing line is not for the poor, as per Mr. Ari Ben David ( A South African Business Man that will be opening up a showroom selling these clothes), this clothes are “out of reach for the ordinary person”". Now, my questions are: considering a lot of the super rich who can afford these clothes walk around with some form of security and most violent crimes occur in poor neighborhoods where gangs
and other forms of atrocities exists - who will be protecting the economically disenfranchised?
Second questions is the creation of this clothing line an admittance that there is a problem?
Third question: how does this work psychologically within South Africa, wouldn’t this create a system in which a group of people might feel invincible and free to do what they will and by so doing create some form of resentment amongst South Africans of a lower economic class?
Fourth questions: Isn’t this fashion line inherently classists?
Fifth question: Won’t this be introducing a new kind of crime, something very similar to the American mob system, because there seems to be no control as to who can gain access to the clothing line? The only control factor there seems to be is money.
So riddle me this or you can riddle me that..will you be buying into this line, why or why not?
[...] Original post by Pamela Stitch [...]
very appropriate questions. I’m glad the world has people like you who have the courage to see things objectively and ask questions like these. Perhaps the line owners will think about it and do something with regards to the availability of the vests (clothing) to the needy.
Well, but what is the incentive to make it something that the poor will have access to. Haven’t u noticed that when everyone can gain access to a thing, its worth depreciates.
But also, you have to look at the cost of creating that line, the materials used to make it, they aren’t everyday material, when you add all these factors, including the fact that the the owner has to turn a profit, I really can’t see why he will choose to reduce its cost?/
Pammy
Okay that’s another very good point u’ve made. I have very limited knowledge about business, but my general understanding is that if a good is produced in massive quantities, profit could still be made on the basis that although sold a little cheaper, the demand could absorb the product abruptly…and in this case the demand is obviously more in communities where gun and knife crimes are higher.
lol but you’ve forgotten to factor in the cost of creating this high quality product.
When goods are mass produced something has to give, often times the quality of the good (in terms of material used to produce the goods) or the cost of labor. Now, it is given that this product has to be at a high quality because we are talking lives so the only way to cut cost is via cutting the cost of labor, so we are talking about outsourcing that part of it to a country in which the cost of labor is significantly lower and maybe there are no insurance costs on employees (okay, this is evil pammy talking here)!
My bad. lol. i’ll give other respondents a chance. It’s difficult to argue against facts. Maybe my head need some clearing up, but all the same, i must admit it’s a real puzzle.
LOL!!
Miss Bulawayo 2008 - An insult to the city of kings and queens.
The event that rocked Bulawayo the Friday of 26 October 2008 at a local Hotel was the one of the properly organized events in the city of Queens and Kings. I would like to thank Sarah Mpofu and her organizing team for making sure that an event of that magnitude sailed through to search for a beauty Queen.
However I would like to attack the process models go through for them to enter the pageant and be part of a competition that is going to bring a queen that would represent at national and world level. I believe that the current Miss Bulawayo, Sharon Dube is a disaster, a disgrace and a non-starter, she doesn’t deserve that title and it should be taken off her before we take to the streets.
We cannot have a brainless ambassador of loose morals taking the crown. We the people of Bulawayo deserve better and what happened on that Friday at the Miss Bulawayo event was a huge mistake that should be corrected in order to set a standard for future models, models should know how to behave if they want to be national ambassadors and that is what Sharon Dube does not have, she has been in the papers for all the wrong reasons pertaining to unruly behaviors, drunkardness and public fighting at local nightclubs, I am sure these unfortunate incidents that get to the papers are just little bits of what happens behind the scenes. Models should be people who have the community and the nation at heart, these are people who inspire our young children at home and therefore their house should be in order before they conquer the world.
We have had models like Nomakhosazana Ncube who have been truly talented both on the ramp and educated, by the way education is not the diplomas and degrees that we have but the way we live and interact with the people around us, to me that education at its highest level. The organizers failed to yield up a good team of proper talented models and Sarah Mpofu has just dug herself a pit that would cost her in the future unless if she was inspired by the Mazibuko project. We had ministers present on that day and respectable businessman and women, for them to attend and grace a function that will produce the worst of all from Bulawayo is what we abhor and would like to correct.
I would like to end by saying that the vetting process should not just be the height and weight of models but should dig dipper into the personal lives and make sure that what we are going to present will be one of the best from our region and the country as a whole.
This pageant should be give to those who can run it smoothly and there is always room for new people and new ideas. If Sarah is tired, she should pave way or just put her methodologies in order.