Many of my clients like the green credentials of vintage clothing, the lower carbon footprint and not adding to one of the most polluting industries on the planet: It takes a mind boglingly huge volume of water to make just one t-shirt.
Our modern world is swamped in cheaply produced clothing. In my opinion you should not be able to buy a top for £4. Neither should top flight designers damage old stock so they can’t be resold. Not that sweat shops are anything new, they’ve just moved from the Jewish East End of London to India. In the past people had fewer clothes and knew how to care for them, they had what we would now call capsule wardrobes. Only really rich people had a large choice of clothes to wear There has been a democratisation of fashion but the instagrammers who can only wear something once have gone too far.
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