What would you do if you were asked to swap shoes with a Cambodian textile worker in Phnom Penh? Relish the opportunity, or would you be pretty scared at what you might discovered? For three 17-year-old Norwegian fashion bloggers, this is what they had got themselves in for.

In a five-part online reality series about the terrible conditions of sweatshops in Cambodia from Norway's largest newspaper Aftenposten, Anniken Jorgensen, Frida Ottesen and Ludvig Hambro were flown to the country's capital where they spent a month living the life of a Cambodian textile worker.

The social experiment, named 'Sweatshop Deadly Fashion', aimed to expose these horrible conditions and to highlight the fashion industry's major hypocrisy. Throughout the series, the three fashionistas are visibly shocked at the working conditions and appalled at how the workers are being treated.

"I have no words for it. It's just so unfair," says Ludvig at one point, whilst Anniken asks, "What kind of life is this?"

It's quite a powerful documentary exploring how privileged Westerners perceive the fashion world. Despite the fact that there has been more media coverage of how poor working conditions and pay is for factory workers in the East, we are still somewhat ignorant - in the diluted sense of the word; aware yet choosing to ignore these facts - of how our clothes are made, and at what cost they are made at.

It's almost frustrating seeing how emotional the three teenagers get, whilst these Cambodian workers are stoic, and whilst are aware of their suffering, don't know how bad it is compared to the West. It's definitely worth a watch.

You can watch the full series on the Aftenposten website. Watch the trailer below:

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