Fast Fashion is ruining the environment
Mar 30, 2019 12:48:37 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 30, 2019 12:48:37 GMT
I dont listen to anyone,ive always done what i want, if folks or my rellies didnt like it,well oh dear me,tough.My life no one elses.
Im not here for someone elses selfish emotional need or to provide for.
I dont do fashion but i do like nice clothes and Ive had and still got some expensive hand made clothing and not about to part with them while they fit.
Maybe thats irrational but its my choice and i dont live in a 3 bed house full of synthetic floor and wall coverings and furniture and mass produced nonsense to fill it.
Ive not cost the Earth in massive amounts of materials building any of the houses ive lived in, they were there anyway decades before i came into the world.
Ive never bought a new car nor caravan or boat ive lived in.
So the small amount of quality clothing ive bought is of little consequence and kept handcraft traders in business.
Non of the clothes i have are mass produced or made in sweat shops...though i cant say i really know where my army surplus clothing that i live in, is made.
The problem is there is a lot of fashion designer clothing thats cost naff all to make in far east sweat shops thats sold here for stupid money.Ive got friends who will buy a 70 quid shirt and wear it once and chuck it in charity or bin.
Equally youve got tons of supermarket own brand clothes thats hip enough for most people, cheap as chips and which manufacturers arent going to be too choosy about how they get the materials for, so long as theyve a mass market of eager buying consumers.
While consumers have that mentality -that everything is cheap and disposable - the manufacturers will continue to rape the environment providing what consumers want.
Its really up to consumers to change their attitude to consuming to make change happen.
When so called eco-aware trendies attend Glasto or Reading festies and think nothing of abandoning 6000 tents at each venue or 5000 bikes at Desert Fire or several hundred tons of kit abandoned on Everest base camp, it shows we have a long way to go before the eco message sinks in.
Im not here for someone elses selfish emotional need or to provide for.
I dont do fashion but i do like nice clothes and Ive had and still got some expensive hand made clothing and not about to part with them while they fit.
Maybe thats irrational but its my choice and i dont live in a 3 bed house full of synthetic floor and wall coverings and furniture and mass produced nonsense to fill it.
Ive not cost the Earth in massive amounts of materials building any of the houses ive lived in, they were there anyway decades before i came into the world.
Ive never bought a new car nor caravan or boat ive lived in.
So the small amount of quality clothing ive bought is of little consequence and kept handcraft traders in business.
Non of the clothes i have are mass produced or made in sweat shops...though i cant say i really know where my army surplus clothing that i live in, is made.
The problem is there is a lot of fashion designer clothing thats cost naff all to make in far east sweat shops thats sold here for stupid money.Ive got friends who will buy a 70 quid shirt and wear it once and chuck it in charity or bin.
Equally youve got tons of supermarket own brand clothes thats hip enough for most people, cheap as chips and which manufacturers arent going to be too choosy about how they get the materials for, so long as theyve a mass market of eager buying consumers.
While consumers have that mentality -that everything is cheap and disposable - the manufacturers will continue to rape the environment providing what consumers want.
Its really up to consumers to change their attitude to consuming to make change happen.
When so called eco-aware trendies attend Glasto or Reading festies and think nothing of abandoning 6000 tents at each venue or 5000 bikes at Desert Fire or several hundred tons of kit abandoned on Everest base camp, it shows we have a long way to go before the eco message sinks in.
