An American fashion label has come under fire for selling a ‘peasant’ dress… for £250.
New York-based label 6397, which describes itself as providing ‘style response to the needs of modern women’, is selling the shapeless cotton dress/ sack for $375 (£250).
The dress was flagged up by Reddit users, who took issue with poverty being exploited in the name of fashion… plus the irony of paying tons of money to look as if you have none.
‘It costs a lot of money to look “just homeless enough” for Coachella or Bumbershoot,’ commented one user. Another pointed out that it ‘has side seam pockets… to hold all the money you don’t have.’
Others were even less polite. ‘For that money I could hire someone to beat up a real peasant and take his/ her clothes, and then it would be an authentic oppressed peasant shirt,’ smirked one, while another simply stated: ‘Just get a fat boyfriend. Boom saved you 375 dollars.’
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap…
