Why are the clothes we donate to the mountainous regions appearing on the African second-hand market and becoming the African fashion statement?

For profit. I have always been very simple to think, located in the neighborhood downstairs of those green donation box, is donated to the poor mountainous areas, in order to make the poor mountainous areas of those ragged children have clothes to wear, I had once my home is still seven or eighty percent of the new clothes into the donation box, thinking that this is also out of the heart of it for them. However, I never thought that these clothes did not go to the poor mountainous areas, but across the ocean, was sent to Africa for secondary consumption.

I, Africans are fond of these clothes

The clothes that appear in the African second-hand trading market are very strange. Which occupies a large part, should be everywhere like a flour bag like school uniforms. These Africans love these clothes and wear them as they are found. There are also shirts with Chinese characters on them. Although they don't know what the words on the shirts mean, it doesn't stop them from wearing them around.

Two, why they love it

It is incredible to think that those flour pockets, the nightmare of Chinese children's childhood and youth, are so popular with Africans in Africa. But there is a reason for this. Don't underestimate these flour pockets, as people who have worn flour pockets for so many years, we know best what effect they really have. For example, the wide sleeves protect against the sun and are also very resistant to dirt. Wearing them in wind and rain also protects against the elements, and more importantly, they're actually made of good fabric.

Secondly, African clothes are actually very expensive. It's not like we haven't seen some movies about Africa, where Africans usually wear traditional dresses, but these dresses are not something that the average African can afford to wear. So, a long time ago, most of the Africans didn't wear much clothes. When our clothes, at a cheap price, came into Africa, it made these Africans, who are not unattractive either, rush for them and very much sought after. So why they are attracted to Chinese second-hand clothes, not only because they are comfortable to wear, but also because they are cheap.