Young Chinese are big on getting their clothes online—used designer brands offered on the consumer-to-consumer retail site Taobao can be as little as one tenth the price for a new item.
But some of these hand-me-downs are probably not what most people would want to wear if they knew where they had been.
A report by the Zhuhai Television Station in southern China tracked over 100 tons of used clothing imported from an Israeli company and unloaded in the port of Shenzhen. Much of the clothes came from overseas landfills and even hospital morgues, according to local authorities.
Customs officials in Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis located near Hong Kong, found that most of the items were underwear, including those of famous brands such as Calvin Klein.
