Pentecostal vestments?

It was the Church Times' photo that caught my attention; it looked like Benny Hinn is wearing a very short cassock alb. Doncha think? The anti-vestment people are reinventing them ... just not based on late Roman gentlemanly fashion, but rather late 20th century western mores.

Church Times - Evangelist is turned back at airports

The wages of corporate sin ...

It's what some expected, some feared and most would like not to know. Major British clothes retailers (and therefore almost certainly this applies to North American retailers and the rest of the EU) have had their supply chains investigated and ... "wages paid to garment workers were as low as £1.13 for a nine-hour day. This fails to meet their basic needs, according to factory workers and Indian unions and so falls below the minimum international labour standards promised by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), a code of conduct which sets out basic rights for employees across the supply chain. Marks & Spencer is a member of the ETI, as are Mothercare, Gap and Primark."
To find the report and the organisations behind it visit here.
The sweatshop high street - more brands under fire | Business | Guardian Unlimited Business:

Time to give up distressed blue denim?

"Mariano Barag�n looked down at the blue-grey crust peeling off the field he irrigates from a canal. Nearby factories were the problem - dozens of them, which are dedicated to doing to jeans in hours what used to take years of wear. 'As well as being blue, it burns the seedlings and sterilises the earth,' the 67-year-old subsistence farmer said. And the cause? A wry smile hovered on his lips. 'It's the fashion.'"
Distressed denim trend costs Mexican farmers the earth | Environment | The Guardian: