We dug into the real reason all of our clothes are getting worse. The fast fashion revolution is making huge brands like Zara and Shein—and their shareholders—rich. Meanwhile, we get worse clothes with no pockets and textile landfills you can see from space.
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I've had the same experience with Lowe's and Home Depot. Cheaper tools that break. Scissors that look like they have a metal handle, but don't. Screwdriver heads that crumble under pressure. Etc. Overpriced, too.
Wait what. The average American buys 68 new pieces of clothing every year? Wow that’s wild lol
Enshittification.
This is why buy a bunch of clothes from abroad.
I am 71 years of age and the clothes I had as a teenager were wearable for years. I even inherited a few blouses from my mother that she wore when she was young and I could still wear them. Americans made most of those clothes and did a great job, that because was because back then, The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) made many fashions in this country and did a great job. I remember seeing their commercials when I was a kid. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1990s to form the new Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees union (UNITE).
you can blame 3rd world dumpster fires for that "phenomenon"
If you're buying 68 articles of clothing a year, then you have an issue, lol.
I've noticed that 20 years ago with a very well known jeans' brand the thickness wasn't the same
I own a pare of jeans that I have since I was 14 years old. The jeans has no holes and is in perfect condition.
All the other jeans I bought over the years, they all have holes in them
All true!
In case you’d be interested in buying high quality clothing you should have a look at these brands: Etro, Zegna, Eton, Gran Sasso and Windsor. All of these brands are high quality and that for a fair price.
Don’t blame the companies – business goal is to make money, and system gives them opportunity to find out what customers really want – and back then it worked – people got affordable cloth that looked like runway wear
Now it is the same customer who still buys clothes even if quality deteriorated badly – and it is because they want new pieces every week , and they know perfectly that those pieces would be worn only couple of times. There is no company in the world that compels you to buy something you don’t want ! The whole responsibility is on the customers who keep buying those clothes. As soon as you stop buying- they will change their model of business) there is still plenty of good quality cloth in the market – you can buy good tshirt for 60$ instead of 8 bad ones for 7, you can buy good jeans for 200$ instead of bad ones for 20$
It is a little strange how young generation likes to blame everything on big companies, big corporations, evil government – a little more responsibility for your decisions won’t hurt them
i like to inform with such critic reports, thank you. AND i really would appreciate to get an idea at the end of the film, HOW to do different in makeable steps …especially when your are not very rich and have a size zero… would it be an alternative to go to your lokal tailor?
Im so sick and tired of tbe thin shit clothes have become. I want hoodies and, jeans thats thick enough to keep me warm. Now everything is spandex and cropped.
Side note about the Shein backlash: it's always funny how western greed screws something up, and it's okay, but when China does it, it's suddenly the #1 problem
Iam in india and even here i can't buy real cotton shirt. Now its all mixed and selling as cotton.
Have I got it right that you think trade liberalization was bad move for US and developing countries like China nowadays Vietnam, India or Pakistan?
this explains why I see people in the street so shoddily and tastelessly dressed – they often don't have the option of something more substantial. Go for second-hand, I say, though not necessarily expensive 'vintage'. Develop your own style, using what you can find out there. Instead of 3 cheap and shoddy new items that look terrible when worn, go for one better quality piece and feel good for longer.
Take clothes seriously! They are too important to be used just for entertainment… go for lasting feel-good value. I once bought a cashmere mix coat, ample, stylish, and felt like a million dollars every time I wore it – which was for a lot of years. What a terrific investment it turned out to be. Let's start to take our dress sense seriously again…
Levi's are still good
I much prefer jeans with elastane. Way more comfortable
What can we do? Looks like this will get worse in our currently forming dystopian USA leadership nightmare. Keep up this good work. Well done.