And this one has horrifying images from Ghana, where "Some 15 million used garments pour into Accra every week from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, flooding the city’s sprawling clothing market."

and

"40 per cent are of such poor quality they are deemed worthless on arrival and end up dumped in landfill."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702

@UnconventionalEmma The scale is part of the problem. The bathroom scale, that is. With the constant ups and downs of weight control it is almost impossible to maintain the same clothing style.

I keep clothes, in the hope that I may, someday fit into them. After awhile, I give up and either give them to a charity or toss them. I buy new clothes (fast fashion) and the cycle starts over again.

In a similar fashion, there was a time when normal ‘old’ clothing was dumped in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan with slogans of, “Third world people need your help”. Only for traders to resell them, recycled, and produced as finished goods. Since the said countries have progressed, interesting how they are now dumped to countries deemed poorer.

/Not being bitter.

@UnconventionalEmma

I used to work on the website of a large high fashion company that rhymes with 'Bucci". They refused to sell second quality of anything. A 40000 Euro fur coat (i know) would get burned if there was a single stich missing in the lining. Whole truckloads of "simple" things would be burned for a consistent flaw in the colour etc.

@UnconventionalEmma

The saddest part is that clothes made in the 1930s-1960s (a bit beyond that for more expensive stuff) were far more beautifully made, from finer, lovelier, longer wearing materials.

Built to Last isn't even frugality! Built to Last because it's BETTER.