For intensive clothes-shopping, Calle de Colón provides lower-than-UK priced Zara, Mango and Camper, as well as leading Spanish designers Purificación García and Adolfo Domínguez.
"Energy and resource-intensive commodities", such as wood, paper and petrol, account for 22%; "Innovative global technologies" (chips, computers and medical products) are 9%; and "labour-intensive tradeables" (textiles, clothes and toys) 7%.
The attraction for Vietnam is better access to the American market for some of its labour-intensive industries such as clothes and shoes.
As costs have risen in China, long the world's shop floor, it is slowly losing work to countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia — at least for cheaper, labor-intensive goods like casual clothes, toys and simple electronics that do not necessarily require literate workers and can tolerate unreliable transportation systems and electrical grids.
This business is likely to move overseas, following the even more labor-intensive job of sewing fabric into clothes.
So long as Thailand relied on low-paid workers to produce shoes, clothes and other labour-intensive goods for export, this did not dent economic performance.
While China excels at producing low-cost, labor-intensive goods, like sneakers, plastic toys, and clothes, America's factories actually churn out far more products, and they're worth a lot more money.
Water-intensive chores, such as the washing of clothes and dishes, are often saved for the day of water delivery.
And it is so important to keep the creative thing going -- the hand labor, it's intensive -- and people want to see our clothes.
The most enjoyable 20% of shopping — whether it's for clothes or a vacation — would come from a more intensive data feed from the cybermall.
But recycling clothes currently is extremely difficult — much of our clothing is from blended fabrics or synthetic materials, meaning that it is often more time and resource intensive to recycle them than to just produce new clothes.
