Fast Fashion Is Hot Garbage | Climate Town

I was raised in what is called 'Soviet clothing culture'. In Soviet Union when people bought clothes, at first they were used as their holiday clothes - something to go out on a weekend, on a date, etc. After some usage, same clothes became their casual wear to go to their work. Then, when the clothes had become to look too worn out, they could become wearable at home, whre there is no need for a cool dress. Then they could become the clothes to do some work which implies dirt - like gardening of DIY fixing something. And after all the same clothes could be turned into rags and used to clean your house. Despite there is no such scarcity in consumer gooods now, I still find this clothing culture to be the most rational way to treat clothes and still have some really old shirts in use.

"Clothes on average are worn seven times before getting tossed" Me a 20 something, still wearing shorts I got in middle school: "Y'all doing what now?"

the "poor people need fast fashion" thing is hilarious as a poor person because I'm wearing clothes until they fall apart to the point it'd be obscene to keep wearing them, not participating in fast fashion

Years ago, I found a Calvin Klein winter coat in a "free store." It had a hole in one pocket but no biggie. I also found $2 in the other pocket. We moved to Florida so I re-donated the coat. A few years later, I was in Jerusalem and I went into a thrift store. There was an identical coat and since Jerusalem gets cold, I bought it. I put my hand in the pocket and there was a hole...and $2 American!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am tailor and i hate how modern clothes are made. they are made to self destruct, often sewn with the shittiest thread, and their structure doesnt allow repairings. we should teach young people how to make their own clothes and how to keep/fix them

i think large companies like zara should be fined for each kilogram of clothes they dont sell and throw away- they should be discouraged from overproducing garbage clothes that no one wants to buy in the first place

68 pieces of clothing per year? Holy hell. I've had largely the same wardrobe since college, I think I've bought maybe 10 shirts over the past decade? How the hell do people buy so many every year.. that's like over 5 per month

Clothes also used to be altered to follow fashion. So you didn't always buy new clothes but took your old ones to dressmakers who changed them slightly to be more fashionable. I think that is pretty cool.

"worn 7 times before being tossed" me: looks at my shirts that I've had for 10 plus years, jeans I had for 13+ years...

"I'm not an actor. I'm a comedian, which is way worse." I'm surprised that guy didn't bust up laughing right on the spot.

Moments like this kind of make me grateful for growing up poor. I was raised on rummage sales, thrift stores, and hand-me-downs from my older cousins and siblings. 29 now, and I still get most of my clothing from thrift stores, on the rare, rare occasion that I need new ones. (Apart from intimates. I refuse to do secondhand with those). It just baffles me how wasteful our culture has become, and how much just ends up trashed. Clothes, cars no one will buy/drive, food- So, so much waste, and so, so many people who could and would gladly use those very items. Greed is killing our planet and our people.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness." - Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

Part of this issue is that clothes are made so poorly now to meet the demands of fast fashion. I’ve been thrifting for several years and I’m always impressed with the high quality clothing I find from even the 80’s. The fabrics are soft and robust, jackets have tailoring and linings, threads are secure, etc. people shopping in thrift stores easily look more expensive than people shopping in malls/cheap online stores these days.

"I'm not an actor, I'm a comedian. It's worse." incredible

I am eternally grateful to have been raised by depression era parents. I grew up marinating in the understanding that wastefulness is a sin. I was taught to sew and garden as soon as I could walk. Mom and Grandmas even taught me how to make my own clothing patterns, do alterations, and reuse fabric from older clothes to make new fashions. A quilt was the very last stop for fabrics.

Resale is an R word for pRe-owned. Loved the video! ❤

"Only caring about poor people when it's convenient isn't caring". Thank you! At least someone has courage to say it.

Please keep filming the shots where you’re so far away and we get to watch people stare at you like a crazy person. It makes me happy.

And just when you think fast fashion can't get any worse, along comes SHEIN.

The best way to donate clothes is to go to a shelter and donate directly, they will even give you a tax write off form. I volunteered at the rescue mission washing the donations that came in that went directly to the people that needed them we had a little store in there where the guests would sweep the floor for 4 minutes, recieve 5 tickets that they could then use to buy 5 articles of clothes with. It gave them a sense of duty, helped keep the shelter upkept and provided the much needed clothing they needed. Sadly, winter coats and boots were rarely donated...