A Nelson nursing student is simulating the back-breaking conditions of Bangladeshi factory workers to raise awareness about ethical shopping.
Over the course of this week, Yasmeen Jones-Chollet will have worked 112 hours sewing bags on the city's main street to make her point.
"Basically I can't stand it. I can't stand the massive injustice, the gross exploitation of people and the devastation of the planet," Ms Jones-Chollet told 1 NEWS.
As part of the reconstruction, she can't talk to visitors and only breaks to go to the toilet. But she says the hardest part is not seeing her son.
"They just don't have what we have. And what kind of world are we going to create if a little child can't go home to mum at the end of the day?" she says.
The protest also marks five years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. Poorly built and overcrowded, it killed 1134 people.
"What I'm doing is a stunt. The thing is, when I finish this, nothing will have changed in Bangladesh or India. So what I want people to do is to think about what they buy."
Ms Jones-Chollet is encouraging shoppers to ask stores where their goods are made.
"People will speak to the manager about a hole in their clothing or an unfair price but I think that's a more important question."
FairTrade Nelson Tasman, the only group registered with NGO Fashion Revolution in Australia and New Zealand, is hosting the city's largest 'clothes swap' this weekend.
Organiser John Marshall says people can "bring along up to five items of their favourite clothes and exchange them for five other items".
Yasmeen Jones-Chollet will sell her bags in Nelson on Saturday, with proceeds going towards the cost of her protest.
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