I’ll never understand why fast fashion is a thing. Personally, I hate clothes shopping. I hate clothing stores and all their bullshit consumerist tactics. I hate fitting rooms. I hate how every store has a different idea of what “small”, " medium" and “large” actually mean. I hate the grating music every store plays at too loud a volume. I’ll literally wait until most of my clothes are worn to the point of being embarrassing to wear in public before I begrudgingly go out and buy more clothes.
Fashion is something that existed for as long as clothes. It is just a facet of human understanding and longing for beauty. But if you ask about this thing called “fashion” in modern sense, it is of course capitalism applied to that longing and creating a monster.
Well said.
I like fitting rooms only to shoplift.
Same what you said comrade. A lot of my clothes are 7-12 years old and some are starting to get noticeably worn to the point where they start to fall apart. I honestly don’t mind too much but I absolutely despise this “fasion” BS. I’m on the spectrum too so it’s difficult for me to be in places where a lot is going on. My senses get overloaded every time I step into one of these shops and I can hardly deal with it.
I guess it’s going to a boardgame café and trying out all the games, or like going to a fancy food-tasting, or a record store where you can listen to everything … but for people who like clothes.
And then you add a social element, where people shop in small groups.
There is a small but growing group of people who hand knit and hand sew their clothes. It’s not exactly the solution, but it’s nice to see a return to ‘slow’ fashion in some circles.
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I started learning how to hand-spin my own yarn at the beginning of the pandemic, and then picked up knitting, crocheting and sewing as a side-effect. I’m pretty sure the stuff I make still “looks handmade”, but I’m getting better all the time, and as a bonus, I’ve taught most of my friends and comrades how to sew on buttons and do basic garment repairs. I still buy most of my clothes, but now the major question when I’m shopping in stores isn’t “how long will this last/how long will it be in style?” but “will I be able to fix this if a button falls off or one of the seams comes loose?” Even for people who cannot afford to abandon the entirety of the fast fashion mass market and/or sew things themselves, learning some basic clothing repair skills is still a positive thing. I like to think of it as an opportunity to collect useful skills for the day when capitalism goes belly-up entirely.
Tbh, it sucks that punk fashion got commodified pretty hardcore and lost its DIY ethic. Now it basically is more punk to wear cute, nonthreatening handmade and secondhand clothes.
Spinning sounds really cool though. Dat vertical supplychain integration.
Could you share any of the learning resources you used? I really want to pick up knitting, but am kind of lost
Yarn & wool aren’t exactly cheap… but once you put in some more effort, maybe it gives you a reason to cherish every piece of clothing & wear it as long as you possibly can
Fashion, fast or slow, is for idiots and morons.
I mean it was fine when it evolved over decades, now it’s just a parody of itself
I mean… Corsets, arsenic dyes, felt hats that require heavy metals to make… Fashion was never exactly healthy.
You okay, dude? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger.
Counterpoint: looking nice gives me serotonin
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Guess I’m a moron then.
