Golden Chance To Put The Brakes On Fast Fashion

If you are over the age of 18, you may not have heard of Boohoo until this week’s allegations of modern slavery.

- Annie Brown

They sell skimpy clothes for nubile young women, the kind your mother would have called “tarty”, as she warned “you’ll catch your death in that”.

In short, the clothes we would all be wearing now if our youthful allure hadn’t migrated south.

Boohoo said on Monday it was investigating claims that staff at one of its Leicester factories were paid as little as £3.50 an hour and were working without proper equipment to guard against Covid-19.

The firm, which owns the Nasty Gal and Pretty Little Thing brands, saw shares tumble by 25 per cent, wiping £1.3billion off its value.

The stock market was stunned, the company promised to investigate, Priti Patel became terribly woke and was “appalled”, and girls who buy their products took advantage of a whopping 70 per cent sale.