Yes, you can really get free clothes on Shein, but we explain why that's a bad idea

A dedicated page and a sort of auction to win some of the items to try on and review quickly, complete with photos. When the "fast" also involves the user and contributes to the worldwide production of garbage

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Shein, a marketing battleship and a monster in the "fashion" sector that contributes to polluting, maintaining inhuman working conditions, undermining the work of stylists and creators who try to work ethically.

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Lord of the Shein

The ultra fast-fashion giant is only interested in keeping production very high and maximizing earnings, even by giving garments through a sort of auction. There is the Free Trial Center, a virtual showcase where you can request some clothes, among those proposed, to try on for free. How not to take advantage, especially for the youngest who still do not have a job or have begun to enter the world of work?

T-shirts, tops, skirts, swimwear, sportswear: a world of polyester and elastin in the colors of the rainbow. You log in with your account or create a new one: you select the products and then send your application. If you are one of the winners, you can receive clothing up to three times a week. From this you can already guess the volume of business and harmful emissions produced every day.

Yes, you can really get free clothes on Shein, but we explain why that's a bad idea

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The rules of the game

The artificial intelligence behind this mechanism chooses who to reward based on the history of their activities: surely those who have purchased the most with few or zero complaints will be more likely to receive the gift package. You receive the shipment in the shortest possible time and always in the shortest possible time, that is 10 days, you must publish the review with a lot of photos. And on this point the company does not compromise, indeed it remembers it very often.

What happens if something goes wrong?

If the size is wrong, nothing can be returned, so much so that the user is invited to let others try on the clothes and send the review, again in the famous 10 days. Reputation is worth more than the goods shipped and the labor of so many exploited workers.

Another fundamental step: if what is sent is stopped at customs, the release operations, complete with payment, are all at the recipient's expense. A clear sign of how little value the goods have for this manufacturer.

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Junk fashion, that's what it is

How else can we define such an aggressive production towards the entire supply chain? Fashion-Garbage, because, if you don't like it or it comes in the wrong size, you can't send it back, so in the vast majority of cases this is what it will become. Images of the mountains of used and new clothes in the Atacama Desert have gone around the world, as have those of the open landfill in Ghana or Kenya.

Certainly with this fast-fashion and overproduction system, which Shein also helps to keep active, there is no sign of changing course. Indeed, she is getting closer and closer to us: already in 2019 Oxfam had reported that every minute half a ton of clothes were thrown into a landfill in Ireland. An incredible cost also for the environment calculated in over 12 tons of carbon emissions, the same produced by traveling 65.000 kilometers by car.

Yes, you can really get free clothes on Shein, but we explain why that's a bad idea