19-02-2019, 10:08 AM
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Re: The end of throwaway fashion
Originally Posted by Artangel
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I tend to keep old favourites and sometimes wish l had bought two of them at the time of purchase.In the sales recently, l bought two pairs of black jeans. One pair was Levi and the other was another good make.
I got them both at a ridiculously low price but it made me wonder, how much do retailers pay for clothing in the first place if they are able to sell them for such low prices and still make a profit.
19-02-2019, 10:31 AM
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Re: The end of throwaway fashion
Originally Posted by Artangel
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I tend to keep old favourites and sometimes wish l had bought two of them at the time of purchase.In the sales recently, l bought two pairs of black jeans. One pair was Levi and the other was another good make.
I got them both at a ridiculously low price but it made me wonder, how much do retailers pay for clothing in the first place if they are able to sell them for such low prices and still make a profit.
When I first started buying clothes, they were relatively expensive, so needed careful thought.
It all seemed to change in the 90s; things started getting cheaper and cheaper.
Unfortunately, a lot of the quality went too. I used to buy a lot of clothes from one catalogue.... the cotton t-shirts, for example, were good quality, and the clothes were stylish and often unusual. Then the material started getting thinner and thinner and the styles became ordinary and boring, so by the early noughties I gave up on them.
19-02-2019, 11:57 AM
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Re: The end of throwaway fashion
Originally Posted by Azure
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Many people can't ebothers to even wash Cheap T Shirts and just bin them.They do make good dusters. and so do men's Y Fronts as well
Do some have a separate waste collection bin ?
19-02-2019, 12:08 PM
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Re: The end of throwaway fashion
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Calls are being made to the government to put an end to throwaway fashion .https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...shion-11257632
What a waste !
I tend to keep things for years .
The clothing is always clean.
19-02-2019, 12:16 PM
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The British buy more clothes per person than any other country in Europe, the report published as a result of the inquiry noted, while around 300,000 tonnes of textile waste is sent to landfill or incinerators in the UK every year.Crikey that much!!!!
I wash and send to Charity shops.
19-02-2019, 12:18 PM
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Re: The end of throwaway fashion
If a piece of clothing is really old and worn, i.e. with holes in it, etc., or of too intimate a nature to give to charity shops, (like knickers), then if they can't be used as household rags for cleaning, they get binned with the refuse.There isn't anywhere else to dispose of them. Rag merchants only want huge quantities, and the hoppers at recycling centres want wearable clothes.
Charity shops are a godsend, though. When I was young, there weren't any, only periodic jumble sales which I did use to frequent, as I had very little money.
Now I use charity shops a lot, as a way of getting cheap clothes, and most of them go back to a charity shop when I no longer like, suit or fit a piece of clothing.
However, I have clothes going back to the 70s! Old favourites that are of their time and so are 'vintage'!
19-02-2019, 05:26 PM
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So how are the government going to police this? Send out teams in riot gear to make sure I'm sipping my pint in the same trousers and t shirt I wore last week otherwise I will be tasered and forced at gunpoint to pay them 1p?Why not burn all those velvet robes they swan about in for Lord Mayor's luncheons it costs the taxpayer a fortune to pay for instead?
Fascists all!
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