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- Profession / role:
- proprietor
- Company / organisation:
- Veganline.com
- Website (if you have one):
- http://www.Veganline.com
- My primary role in relation to fashion is:
- Designer, Buyer, Retailer, Manufacturer
- I am looking to discover or buy
- A guerilla on Hampstead Heath, free services such as web design and photography, buyers of cartons of goods at high prices but with low expectations of availability and organisation
- About me / About business or organisation:
- Shopkeepers in this trade have to tick other boxes: I used to make the belts before my mum started doing it, so that's "manufacturer", and there's the constant job of choosing new combinations of use for the old footwear machinery and patterns without taking too much of the factory's time. I suppose that's "designer". And European or fairtrade vegan shoes aren't cheap or available in many wholesale catalogues, so tracking-down sources and materials counts as "buyer". Walking to the post office or emailing a warehouse probably counts as "supplier". As for "model", "consultant", "photographer", or "better web site designer" & "better organised", I can only wish.
- Career history / Company history:
- In the 1980s there were no good jobs for a college leaver and the first half of my career was spent in fringe social work such as working shifts in nightshelters or working for dodgy social work quangos. Another thing about the 1980s, other than bitterness about an exchange rate policy that closed so many factories and punk rock, was that being Vegan was a new trendy thing that seemed about to take over the world. As it happens, environmental concerns more common than an interest in animal cruelty now, but the two overlap. A report called "livestock's long shadow" for the UN sums up in the first few paragraphs how the animal industry takes-up too much of the planets resources in pollution, gas emissions, and land waste.
My second career of selling vegan shoes at Veganline.com was a way of getting out of social work into a business I knew nothing about, pretty much as people used to tunnel out of Colditz. It started in a small way back in 1998, just as the internet was starting, which explains the name: Veganline.com was expected to be as much a phone line as the first vegan shoe shop online and still has a little-used 0800 number to prove it.
The business is recession-proof to a fault; if there were no orders for a year it could still survive with nearly all the jobs done free and in-house.
The business has a different emphasis to fair trade as well. It's common to see newspaper articals that treat fair trade as a good way of helping people in the poorest, least organised countries compete with Chinese shoe imports. Most of the specialised environmental or ethical shoe companies now have statements on their web sites that they would like to buy more of their shoes closer to home, and that this is difficult to do but commentators have not always caught-up.
I still think that fair trade is fair on UK factories and that that unfair trade is not; Veganline.com tries to buy from countries with courts votes and a welfare state which all add to the costs of shoe making but are more important than what colour the shoes are or how often the styles change. It's important in a recession too; shoes from countries with good government or fairtrade shoes allow the money to trickle down and around, rather than going to the swiss bank account of a Chinese official.
Illness has prevented a quick development of Veganline.com (a virus in 2002 that damaged short-term memory - now slowly recovering) but little by little it is getting organised. Achievements along the way have been the Bouncing Boot, made in the UK with an extra bouncy sole that moulds to the shape of your feet, the XCap with an external steel toe cap which has been featured in films, and a huge-range of slow-selling footwear such as UK-made slippers or slippers for funny-shaped feet, wellies in the shape of riding boots or French canvas shoes which don't make the fashion reviews but serve a market.
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