one month into the lockdown, hosna was called back into work.ne, she was laid off and given just 5,000 taka, around £16 in compensation. in chittagong, 17 days into the pandemic, mostafiz had to close his factory. he was receiving e—mails from buyers cancelling their orders. many of the jeans had already been made and were ready to be dispatched. some had already been shipped. but some customers were saying they were no longer responsible for the payment of their order or were putting payment off indefinitely. when the pandemic hit, around $3 billion of orders were cancelled in bangladesh's garment industry. you see all this is justjeans. and those were all made for the high street. theyjust keep here like that. how many days i can keep the jeans like that? where i have this space?! you can see by yourself there is no space. everywhere, everywhere you can see. there is no space and it is not safe for the working condition. mostafiz pays for all materials to make the jeans upfront. he borrows money from the bank for the denim and his workers‘ wag