I Had No Idea I Was Such A Forward Thinker
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According to the shopping site brandless.com there is a “Slow Fashion Movement”
https://blog.brandless.com/3-easy-ways-to-join-the-slow-fashion-movement/
They offer 3 Easy Ways to join The Movement
1. Know What’s Slow
I think I know what’s slow. Like Ronnie, that cousin we never talk about at Thanksgiving.
2. Resist the Urge to Follow Trends
My Members jacket and velcro sneakers may not be so fashion forward, but they are comfortable by gum!
3. Shop Outside The Mall
I’m here at meh.com, which is pretty darn far from the mall.
Is anybody else with me? Anybody else already joining the Slow Fashion Movement?
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Let me check what’s left over from the 1950’s.
“Biodegradable, renewable, do not use environmentally toxic chemicals”. I probably don’t make the cut. I do wear jeans until my underwear shows more than a couple of square inches through the holes, so that’s good, right? And most of my Meh shirts were made in the US.
@sammydog01 Leather is biodegradable and renewable.
I used to check if t-shirts we’re sweatshop free when I bought them, but I realize boycotting does nothing and I should wear the clothes that I like.
I do wear t-shirts until they tear off my body, though.
@JoetatoChip The country of origin spells out a lot of how workers are viewed (treated) and whether they are paid fair wages (to that country’s living costs) versus prolonged poverty.
NPR did a series a few years back that shed some light into it:
https://www.npr.org/series/248787926/planet-money-makes-a-t-shirt
@JoetatoChip @narfcake
I really enjoyed that
@narfcake This is something that irritates me a lot when I see people (on Amazon, primarily) asking about CoO and the responses being like ‘China… but it’s a high-quality product!!’ There are reasons to question CoO other than production quality. And it has nothing to do with the Chinese (etc.) people, and everything to do with labor laws and the like.
@brhfl Positioning themselves as the world’s supplier to almost anything, China as a whole has been cleaning up their acts a lot in recent years, wages have risen, and skilled labor is in demand. That doesn’t mean all is perfect, but we certainly can’t say that about the US either where we have food service workers paid $2.13/hour with the expectation that tips make up the rest and an entire farming industry reliant on migrant workers being paid wages below minimum.
@brhfl @narfcake not to mention the US businesses willing to look the other way to hire undocumented workers at under-market wages and support human trafficking to pad their bottom line.
@mike808 Yep.
Years back, my boss needed a mobile welder at a job site, so he called a couple companies. “Oh, it’s the Federal Building? Uh, sorry, we can’t send our guys.”
@mike808 @narfcake
@therealjrn This was the late 90’s; it’s years too late for that.
It’s also possible that it was because their employees had records which would make them unwilling to want to work on such sites, but I am guessing that it was more so a question of legality.
I wear nothing but the cheapest clothes Walmart carries, which are mostly 100% cotton. Which I guess means I meet the criteria too.
I like 100%cotton anything and I’ve gotten some great stuff on eBay. Reduce, reuse, recycle right? I’m here on Meh too so yeah I’m fashion forward all the way. Since I’ve been thrift store shopping for longer than I want to admit I’m not sure if I want to laugh or cry at that article.
@Joy823 Last year I got on a linen kick, and tried to only buy items of flax, silk or both. At thrift stores. It cut way down on the list of ‘eligible’ items, but it turns out they’re way up on the ‘quality’ list.
I love the template for individualists.
Blue jeans and t-shirts, or shorts and t-shirts. If I want to REALLY dress up, I iron my jeans. lol
@Tadlem43 If you had bought the steamer off of meh you really could have been fancy and steamed the wrinkles out of them. Missed opportunity.
Well it is my day off. I am doing yard work in my decades old carhartts and a free t shirt.
I do use an app that lets me see how much I wear things and the cost per wear. It has made me realize that I like skirts and dresses but I wear jeans and shorts and has had me buying less of what I do not wear and high quality of what I do wear.
Bear with me, it’s not going to be short. In fact, let me get another cup of coffee…BRB.
I’m a fan of buying quality garments, and those are seldom inexpensive at the time of purchase…However…
When I retired, on February 1, 2006 (yes, that was a long, long time ago), I did an assessment of the things I owned; not that very second, of course, but you get the idea. I left a lot of furniture behind, mostly donated to charity, but some just left out for the early morning scavengers that came through the neighborhood before the trash pickup. Yes, scavengers (Southern California). That’s what I said.
I didn’t really think about clothes; I just packed them all. I thought I would continue to work, but the downturn was even more severe than I’d predicted, and I felt a moral obligation to stay out of the job market. I got used to being retired, and there aren’t a lot of things I’m fit for (I don’t take direction, and lack people skills).
After I’d settled into a new home, far away from SoCal, I gave a closer look to things. Over time, even more furniture vanished, as I replaced things with antiques that made me happy (sometimes I replaced antiques with other antiques). What’s really strange is that I spent FAR less money on antique furniture in truly excellent condition that I’d have spent on new furniture.
Ah, but those clothes… After I’d been retired for about two years, I realized I had closets filled with professional clothes that I would never wear again. I donated them all to various places, but only to organizations large enough to ship them out of town (because I would be uncomfortable seeing something I had owned on someone I didn’t know). Yeah, yeah, TMI.
It’s been more than twelve years. I’ve made the effort to discard anything I didn’t wear, and only now are things that I do wear starting to show signs of needing replacement. I’ve even tossed a couple of things as being unsalvageable. Then again, it’s headed into summer, and time to do yard work. Old jeans are just fine for pulling weeds, and putting in seedlings. Maybe I’ll go shopping for new clothes next year…
@therealjrn My version is so much like @Shrdlu that it’s hilarious. I retired in 2007, and donated piles of business attire and heels to a local ‘start again’ charity which trains women to enter the business world. When I moved here from another state, I donated much of my furniture to whatever charity would take it, gave some to friends, and put some out at the curb. I’ve banished furniture made of wood chips and glue, and picked up odds and ends from yard/estate sales, thrift stores etc. I discovered the Red, White and Blue chain of thrift stores and sometimes buy clothes there on Wednesdays (half off for seniors). Much is NWT, last year’s retail leftovers, donated for the tax writeoff. They also have furniture, antique lace doilies, lamps etc. I grew up wearing my cousins’ outgrown jeans and using good(ish) secondhand furniture; it doesn’t bother me.
@OldCatLady @Shrdlu As the youngest of 4, I grew up wearing hand-me-downs. I’m still working, might until I die (by choice) but I don’t need fancy duds for property management. I do have a bad habit of picking out one shirt, or a pair of jeans, or whatever and lovelovelove wearing it until it looks ratty. lol
@therealjrn
What’s a mall?