Meanwhile companies like Shein encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage as a sacrifice to the gods of super-fast-fashion
Encourage, or just enable?
I’ve never heard of Shein telling anyone to do it. I just know their prices are so goddamn cheap you COULD do it if you wanted to. Some people probably do. But I suspect a lot of people just want cheap clothes and will wear them until they have holes in them (which even for Shein clothes has to be multiple wearings usually I’m pretty sure)
In the German documentary I’ve watched a few years ago it definitely looked like their business model was selling their customers insane amounts of cheaply produced clothing by encouraging them to change their outfit super-often, hence the term “fast fashion”. They even pay influencers to promote this wasteful trend as “Shein hauls”. And they steal designa from artists
Having gotten some Temu clothing as gifts, there are two main materials I’ve seen. One feels very much like a rough cotton, like the material harem pants are made of, and is mainly in the shorts/pants I’ve gotten. It’s a cotton poly blend, and one is the material of the shirts. They’re super stretchy and elastic, like a spandex almost. The pants and shorts end up with holes quickly as they rip near (but not on) the seams, and the shirts seem to actually last even if snagged because of how stretchy they are.
I wouldn’t advise buying from them or anything, just saying that they’re not exactly single use.
encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage
do you have a single fact to back that up?
spoiler
I just wanted to make the Deus ex reference. But I would like to see evidence
The fast fashion part?
https://time.com/6247732/shein-climate-change-labor-fashion/
The encouraging a single use part? Also in that article, but it revolves around influencers driving constant change. But also the clothes being really cheap and falling apart.
And anecdotally, there’s a pile of clothes in my wife’s closet that still haven’t gotten their first wear.
OK, I’ll put that under “exaggeration for emphasis”.
Yeah, I was a exaggerating a bit, but the waste of clothing and environmental damage is real. I saw it in a documentary. And Shein’s website is (or used to be) full of greenwashing.
Here’s a video essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I
Chew you havisfaction a singleicious satisfact to snack that up?
Which only further encourages the existing tendency for single-use clothing that some groups of people exhibit.
This isn’t a gender thing, it’s a working-class thing. Let’s not get divided unnecessarily divided.
Huh? Which part is strictly a working class thing?
There’s a large spectrum between “I’ll wear it until it falls apart,” and, “I’ve never worn this but I need space for new clothes so it’s going to goodwill,” and working class people fall all over it.
Women generally tend to be the ones who will more frequently refresh their wardrobe. All you have to do is go to a thrift store to see the difference between genders. The women’s clothing section will be massive, and the men’s section significantly smaller.
My son loves the goodwill women’s section. I swear that kids gonna be a fashion designer or a runway model… if I can keep his ass outta jail lol 😓
I get what you are saying. But in this context this is kind of like a “dad joke.” Do we think being pedantic about the terminology is really reinforcing some kind of negative gender stereotype here? Or minimizing the working class?
Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.
I will never cease to be amazed about what people on Lemmy can get offended at. Today it’s a lame joke about old clothes.
I’m offended by your amazment of…
This is the cycle even for me and I’m independently wealthy. Wealthy as a horse, if you will.
(I have many leatherbound books.)
Yaaaay, my mom never ever throw a shirt, clothes are so expensive, she couldn’t afford a new one every time she does anything that could damage them.
(Tbh, I do the same for the same reasons)
More like a manual labor thing tbh. Plenty of working class folks who are no less working class but don’t need to cycle through clothes
This is quite accurate.
The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.
I’m a very middle aged dad, I still have t-shirts from high school that I wear on occasion. Granted, they are in the survivor pile now, but it’s a point of pride that I still have them, and still fit into them. Fun to dust off my old concert t’s every now and again.
Do women not do that? Where do they get rags from?
They get married.
I’m single, maybe some of You ladies need a good source of rags?
From rags to bitches
From bags to witches
By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are ‘unfit to wear’.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the form of men’s clothing.
My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂
I’ve started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don’t wear down like that. They aren’t really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.
I have like a hundred shirts I got at shows in college in a vacuum sealed bag in my closet. Because one day - for sure. definitely. I am 100% going to do this. I have not been putting it off for over a decade - I’m going to turn them into throw pillows
Before that it’s a going-out shirt.
And there’s the pajamas season as well.
My dad still uses tshirts from the 80’s as rags
They can also be turned into crop tops
The only reason I ever gave clothing away was when my fat ass got even fatter and didn’t fit anymore.
Oh and when I finally left the consultant lifestyle behind me and gave away all my suits.
You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.
I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after
For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.
“Are those oily stains on your crotch, are you an octopus and happy to see me?”
“No, these oily stains are from the Italian sub I’ve been eating in bed, not the car I was working on earlier.”
“KISS ME YOU FOOL”
Man what the fuck, you live a wild life
That’s exactly how I manage my clothes.
I’m taking a different path where the holes make the clothes into fun pieces with fun patches on them (or they’re turned into patches if I didn’t really like the article of clothing to begin with).
That’s make sense🤔
