/fa/ - Fashion

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For fashion in terms of clothing for practical usage (not high fashion/runway), the idea of buying fewer clothes that are of lasting quality needs to return. We've been spoiled by the double-edged excesses of capitalism resulting in massive over-production of short-term-use clothing in the form of fast-fashion. My main gripe with the current trajectory of the sustainable fashion movement is that the end-goal seems to be to make our gross over-consumption ecologically bearable, instead of reducing our consumption in favour of longer-lasting goods. Making our clothing bio-degradable, our materials less synthetic, our businesses more cyclic is all helpful, but the fact of the matter is that we are simply producing and consuming too much. At a cultural level, we need to reject our current mode of fashion consumption.

I'm actually working on an essay about this right now, I'll share it here if people are interested and the thread is still up by the time I finish.

Personally, I do basic things like not shopping at fast-fashion/ultra-fast-fashion and paying attention to brands' stances on ecological issues. However, we need to understand that fashion will always be wasteful, there is absolutely no such thing as 'sustainable' clothing in the sense that we can reduce our clothing to its original components. For that reason, I would rather buy beautiful and lasting clothes selectively and infrequently, even if they aren't the most eco-friendly. Note that most of my wardrobe is still basics, mainly from Muji and Carhartt.