Buying a Knockoff of My Own Dress: An Educated Roast (actual fire used for Scientific Purposes) 

Well! I mean, my algorithm handed this to me for no OBVIOUS reason, but my beloved is a seamstress and has watched your videos quite a bit, and there is a full set of Jean Hunnisett books on my shelf soooo... hi!

no regrets

I’m not mad, I am delighted!

I'm for any video from artists railing against these knockoffs. Plus I may have found a new channel! Who knew sewing could be so cool?

Not mad, it's fun to find stuff like this. I enjoyed seeing how professional seamstresses look at things. Helped me see how my mum looks at stuff when she's working

DA QUEEN

hebo031999 BOW DOWN TO ME PESANT SHEEPLE AND WATCH ME CRUSH OPPOSING weaker KINGDOMS WITH MY ELEGANCY.

We all knows well what happens to monarchs eventually. Hint: Louis XV and his wife.

@@ArthurD monarchs eventually die like we all do. I'd guestimate that most do not suffer horrible deaths or get over thrown. Otherwise there wouldn't be any point of having heirs.

I hate how fake her accent seems.

Lmaoooo

Randomm IKR 😌💅🏼 it’s peaceful mood

Not just the fashion industry but consumers in general.

Literally. She sets a piece on fire.

Lol fr like my 20$ hoodie has loose strands and is made with cheap plastic I’m offended but I’m supporting her it 😭

Or miniatures, miniature war gaming and its “plastic crack” leaves you poor

Truth

@@melkorlapich802 Or Pokémon, or TCG in general. Leaves a kid poor, enraged and addicted to cardboard.

@@DarkAngelEU yes yummy yummy cardboard

@@Lord_Asshat I inject the cardboard straight to my veins for optimal pleasure

sad thing is now they all chop the model's face half off, because just by doing that they can pay the model 1/4 of the rate for the exact same work.

@@lyndaanneshop Models need a union. Solidarity forever!

Honestly just do a reverse search on the image, if its a stolen product you usually find the image on other website

Make sure that the site origin isn’t China, Bangladesh or a country that has a reputation for sweatshop conditions. I and a few friends bought a few dresses from jj house and the seams were comings part, the material was cheap, and the colors were wrong.

honestly, if i were trying to market a fashion product, i would intentionally cut the model's face out of the photos just to ensure the focus is all on the product alone. . plus i personally just hate it when sights (legit or otherwise) show the clothing item in a full outfit and not on it's own. Like i want only proper product photos of just that item with a plain, solid colour background. no faces, no hands, no anything extra. I just want to see proper, object product shots of a front and back flat lay photos and front and back fit photos. like if its a skirt. the fit photos should only be from the waist down to the hem or knees. if it's a shirt, the fit photo should only be from the waist up to the collar bone. I want clean, clear, objective shots where i can clearly see everything that's going on with the product. drives me nuts when i order something and it looks good in the staged photos on the sight and then it arrives and everything is the same but there's some weird ruffle i don't like that was hidden by another garment in the photo or by the model's hair or their pose. . plus the whole reason people even just started including the faces of models in product photos for fashion is to try and sell the idea that if you (the consumer) buys their product, then your face and body will magically become as pretty as the model's using subliminal marketing. which i personally hate. it also distracts you from the product (at least slightly) and may make you more likely to buy something you don't actually need/want because your subconscious brain is like "the model is pretty so i guess what they're wearing is pretty" even when you would normally think the clothing product is ugly when viewed on it's own or on a dress form. even makeup and jewelry product photos should just be close up shots of the one relevant body part and never part of a full face shot in my personal opinion on less what's being advertised is a bundle and even then it's should really only include the products being sold in the bundle. . the goal of product photos is to show off the item being sold and I personally feel like it's false advertising when other products are being used in the product photos for only one item. there should be a separate "inspiration" or "lookbook" section (where it would also be okay to show the models' faces) on websites where you can see different products being used in tandem to give customers an idea of how different things work together but those combo photos should not be used on the actual product listings. . for context, i just finished a college program about website design and management that had whole sections on marketing and advertising including how to shoot proper product photos. and subliminal marketing is one of my biggest personal pet peeves. it's just really gross to me. and there is a HUGE difference between a separate inspo sections and subliminal marketing on actual product listings. just that little separation in the placement of 1 photo can change how it effects your perception of things based on context and how you subconscious interprets and processes that context.

I'm taking notes, I'd love to roast this politely

white ladies for you

@@JaggedEdgeBouldering I mean, maybe it's a white lady thing because a lot of this is cultural, but it's also a historical European thing. If you read any Jane Austen, you know that it was a necessary skill to be both brutal and flawlessly polite at the same time. American culture around the same time tends to be a bit more blunt, and I wouldn't be surprised if people of color in England had the same skills (if not more, due to being under worse scrutiny).

she can be a teacher

Oh please please please let us meet your family

@Awkward idk ikr sheesh

Ooooo, I meant to look for those citations! Thanks! *scrolls up*

She is a historian. Research is her literal bread and butter. And from watching her channel, it's actually her nature.

She is not the villain. She is the victim.

@@valeries2304 She copied a dress from a painting that someone else copied 😅

@@aquinamedia4508 She did it for educational purposes and personal use. Not for mass resale

@@aquinamedia4508 At least it doesn't look like a knock off dress a time traveler copied and pasted into the future

@@why5482 A time traveler would have the original.

THIS

I laughed at that

Same! That was really good to hear her acknowledge and not blame the seamstresses. People tend to gloss over that

She's amazing and still so kind

Makes sense since I doubt they’re choosing what to copy. More so the company that controls them is choosing whatever to make them try to copy with what they have.

Why should you blame them ? Makes no sense Dorian ?

@@annlyon.2040 Most people would just drag the quality and ignore the fact that it was probably made in a sweatshop.

🤣😂🤣 YES! Can totally relate

same here. like the FCKING AUDACITY?!

It's like watching Baumgartner Restaurations. Restoring pictures? Why would I watch that?! One video later: How dare they use staples?! Polyurethane?!?!! What monsters! 🤣

@@joe_z The word "plunder" works well too

I felt the same lol.

I don't think shes only one they copied, they arent going to keep track something like that

Likely the person trawling the internet for designs isn't the person answering emails.

And I believe the guy that replied to the email is not the same as someone who has the idea to copy the design

ooooh that is good

Yes! Fabulous idea!

Ooo, yes! That would be so cool!

Yes! That is a wonderful idea!

Oh that's a good idea

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@@ramonewang8386 everyone silently agrees

@@mefovarka indeed.

Not just respect, utter and total submission to her every wish and command.

@@MattPhonee YES YES YES

m o m you must be an idiot lmao

@Laurence Morin that's exactly what they're saying. They're saying that no one was roasting the miss Banner

As a Swede I approve

The difference between alucard armour and alucart armour

I agree 😂

The knockoff is the lookalike Raid Shadow Legends puts on the character they promise you for free if you sign up with MY SPONSOR CODE- (which actually sucks because that's why they can give it to you for free)

My mom was pretty short but had wide hips. Her pants fit her hips but would be way too long. When I got a machine hemming her pants took about 5 minutes per pair so it really came in handy. Recently my husband bought me an expensive wiggly kitty pillow and a seam on the cat came undone so I took a couple minutes to resew the 3 inches and it's good as new. My grandma taught me to sew when I was 5 because the clothes that came with dolls were just terrible so all my dolls had pretty designer dresses instead of the ugly, cheap clothes that came with them. I mended army uniforms because they're expensive and they don't have to look perfect when it's the "jump out of a plane" uniform. I don't make garments, the most complicated thing I made was a dog harness but just having basic skills have really come in handy. Like I wasn't going to toss out a 60$ kitty pillow because 3 inches of it came undone.

It's absurd ppl can't do something as basic as sewing. My grandfather did cobbler work and was a saddler, also did leather work making purses, chaps, etc. My nana a seamstress who also worked hard at the laundry. Working class people should always have these skills.

When I was a kid my mother bought sewing patterns for Barbie clothes and other dolls. Such tiny things to create, I'm not sure I could make those!

@@RunninUpThatHillh you should give it a try! It'll be a treat when you get to make a doll with your own hands.

The issue after the "how to sew" is the "how to deal" mountain of potential sewing projects that you will get to...eventually...

Right? I near about *cackled* when she said that. 🤣🤣

Yessss!!! 😈

But you were the powerful squeeky wheel

@@ritageorge8748 Clever...very clever...

I was drinking water and I almost spit it out because of that line

I can actually visualize that lol.

👏👏👏

Still laughing 😆😂

😂😂 that was GOOD!!

@@c.s.oneill2079 Yes, and what we see of her in this video is the pit. The pit, though less pleasant than the remainder of the peach, is nonetheless a necessary part of the peach. It is the seed. With this video, Bernadette is sowing our hearts and minds with a different view of apparel and what goes into its creation.

At the last stage, in my home we would use them as cleaning rags. Never needed to buy napkins and the like.

Holy hell, Same here! Exactly the same! We also only wear new clothes on special ocassions, and once they lose their "shine" and "newness" they will be used as normal everyday clothes.

quite comparable to a somewhat more expensive than average bespoke suit. fun how that works!

She never even wore the dress

@@ayobell2779 looking at the dress form which mimics the human body, it still wouldn't have looked good even if she had worn it instead of just keeping it on the dress form

Same Here

@@ayobell2779 Did you not watch the whole video? It's not her size so her trying to wear it would be very uncomfortable for her.

Same. Hahahaha

Roast elegantly

This was why I was so drawn to the world of Jane Austen. The way they articulate is just simply divine. Their rude yet calm and collected speech was refreshing compared to today.

she is a human embodiment of the word "shine ( 死ね )"

Cut down my what, exactly?

@@martialme84 Your ego.

That raised eyebrow screams indignation! lol Excellent video and I would love to see more as to what happens to the 'dress'.

I'm not mad, just disappointed.

@@bernadettebanner Bernadette, aside from the egregious copyright/design infringement in this particular case, fast fashion is the democratization of fashion. The vast majority of the world (even in the USA) can't afford to pay $1,600 for one garment or lacks the skills/time to make a dress like this. It's elitist to vilify mass produced (non-couture) manufacturers AND the people that buy mass produced clothing just because they can't afford to buy one-of-a-kind, expensive, labor intensive garments; but still desire them. Also as a side note, you're pricing this dress based on the NYC pricing of fabric and USA minimum wage. $40 is a LOT of money for China. Stealing your creative property is inexcusable; buying mass produced clothing as long as it makes you happy is ok.

that`s like when your mother tells you: I´m not mad... I´m dissapointed...

@@markturner85 boy you didn't listen to a word she said for half the video that's promising

Wow thanks for the likes

The kind of woman I want to grow up as

My mom is like that. It demands respect and terrifies me at the same time. 😬

What I aspire to be as a manage when I’m upset.

@@SalemKnees She's got class. Something many don't have these days.

You’re a Goth, huh? Why aren’t you sacking Rome?

im a grunge ish and agree

Truee

Exactly

Then practise. That's how you get good at things. My school learnt to sew using paper. Draw a line, then sew down it. Rinse lather repeat till you can do it reasonably well.

@@petawatson5120 I think they ment the seams on the knock off dress, not their own stitching.

You sound like when people watch Food Network or a Gordon Ramsey show like Masterchef or Hells Kitchen while eating their Ramen noodles but shake their head in disgust at the contestants.

Agreed!

3rd world countries are incredibly cheap and a few Euros/Dollars can make a great salary. Yeah, im sure there are sweatshops all over the world, but there are also many workers who do this happily.

@@chettonex They don't do this happily. Working conditions in the fast fashion industry are awful, people have to pee in bottles, they're sewing in cold and harsh environments. Sometimes the factories collapse, families are left motherless and then the children have to go and work in the same family for a meager wage.

I try not to. Her genteel outrage is too much for a heathen like me. I say ain't a lot.

well obviously bernadette is a time-traveler. there’s no other way!

Amen, sister. That should be her TedTalk

😂

Omg i dream to be like this

Yes, me too

This had me deadddddd💀

in the marrr THIS COMMENT IS SO UNDERRATED THANK YOU

😂

Medieval Memes™:

LMAO! Why you no up there? 👆

Thy garbage

😂 😂 😂 😂

Lol

This made me laugh a little too hard

She probably did.

Lmao I agree

Not necessarily. If I were to set up a shop, I'd usually crop out/blur out the face in the pictures of my work because I prefer to highlight the actual clothing. Edit: Also, some of the people modeling the clothing don't want their faces shown

@@moonstone3054 then you would look like a scam clothing company

@@moonstone3054, Use mannequins instead of human models, then...

Dude- mannequins are expensive- I'm like 15- I can't afford that

@@moonstone3054 I'd say just try n find models who are okay with it, i know it's not really easy when your entire pool of potential models is just people you know but it'll be easier that way. You could also make sure to keep a good social media presence, that should take the curse off a bit. Good luck tho! I wish I'd started as early as you, I'm just starting now and this shit is difficult 😭

It...doesn't say that

@@trianglelullaby384 Can you all not read It says "educated" not "educational"

@@trianglelullaby384 Uh, no they don't

​@@trianglelullaby384honestly if i'd written something like this online i'd be up all night basking in shame and then delete it first thing in the morning. you're so brave hun

@@trianglelullaby384 Doesn't everyone?

I wouldn't say "politely enraged". It came of purely bitter to me. I do not blame her, as I'm an artist myself, but there is no point to mask what's obvious.

@@dykevader01 Let me get that for you. Bitter "(of people or their feelings or behavior) ANGRY, hurt, or resentful because of one's bad experiences or a sense of unjust treatment." Enraged "very ANGRY; furious."

Beautifully put

@@heathersprague8625 My mom failed as a designer because nobody wanted to pay her even the materials worth and ended up as a middle school teacher with burnout...so this really hits me...definitely going to show this to her...

​@@seigeengine There's nothing wrong with using "politely enraged." You're missing the reason why "politely" was there. I don't know if you know this... but adverbs modify the meanings of words ;D "Smiled sadly" gives the impression that, as opposed to most smiles, that the smile was bittersweet. "Politely enraged" should give you the impression that, as opposed to a rampaging gorilla, she was very angry but had a civilized restraint. This should be evident in the first minute of the video and the LONG spiel about industrialized clothing in the later half of the video. If anything it's a minor exaggeration. There's nothing wrong with someone using colorful rhetoric.

She said she's a historian, by trade, and only makes these one-off historical recreations on the side. I imagine she's well-read, but also you should check out her videos on letter-writing, quill pens etc. I'm sure she's invested time into her elocution, if she's interested in recreating the lovely prose found in victorian correspondence.

well, then you are quite certainly easily entertained. I had a hard time to find out if it shall be educated american english or proper english. This lady surely managed to make me wonder but i believe my first guess is the correct one and she prefers dealing in dollars and not in pounds.

i got the dress online. it really good quality!!

@@amymerdieth2405 you shouldn't be proud of it you know?

Lol. Oh ma god! I totally agree with you

God, yes!

Liked the video at precisely this moment.

😂😂😂

lmao

looked at this at the E👏X👏A👏C👏T time she said it

This is my biggest pet peeve with work gear! My old job had us wearing long sleeve polyester shirts outside, in summer, DURING A HEATWAVE. Pretty sure the only reason noone died was because we all ignored uniform code...

Yup I gVe up, no one wants to pay what you need to charge.

Yeah, and trying to monetize can also suck the joy out of it. I usually either gift my stuff, occasionally sell a few items at ren faires. My favorite thing is trading with other craftspeople, which a lot of my friends are!

I love her sm lmao

It's Mid-Atlantic.

SnapOhNo I’m quoting her in the video

my mother allways buyed my clothe because i don't like going into shop so i don't know what i would do when i would be living alone

Body types should not be trends!

other than for children, who grow at an alarmingly fast pace and therefore do need newly sized clothes every once or twice a year, i didn't even know that it was a thing for people to buy clothes and toss them away almost immediately afterwards. It seems impractical in every sense of the word. as i live in the world now, it is utterly baffling to me how people can treat clothes with such disregard, and even more so since i began to knit some of my winter garments.

Totally agree. I wear my clothes until I can't mend them any more. If a seam comes loose or a button falls off, I can fix that. I have several pairs of jeans that I bought in 1998-2003 so they are 20-25 years old and still good - the buttons have been reattached a couple of times and I had to restitch some seams but the fabric is mostly still good. My grandma taught me some basic clothes mending skills and how to use a sewing machine. I rarely ever buy clothing these days - what I bought as a young adult still fits and the clothes 20 years ago were better made than the crap they are selling these days. Also, the style fits me better. I don't pay attention to fashion trends, I look at what's comfortable and flattering and I'd expect a semi-decent quality - not like hand-made but the fabric should be good quality to last and the cut should fit me. If the seams are not very well made, I can fix that. I also buy clothing from thrift stores because they tend to be better quality.

When I “outgrew” my empire waist maxi dresses, I turned them into elastic waist midi skirts-and still have them as I’d made them myself with quality fabric. More amazing: in 1977 I bought 2 men’s short-sleeve shirts that were of quality material and construction despite being sold in a grocery store-and am STILL wearing them! They don’t even look faded or worn. They even came with a spare placket and a spare collar button attached to the inside. 46 years. PS-I made throw pillows and quilt patches from the bodices and sleeves of those maxi dresses.

YeetoSpagheeto mid Atlantic

DAYBROK3 thank you :))

I thought she was Canadian when I first heard her voice.

Where is she from?

new york i think lol

H H me too

Aren’t we all?

let's try anagramming her name. That's what gave Carmilla away

Still looks like elegant beauty ❤😭

This comment gave me the urge to read wattpad

That's what i was thinking!

Ikr. She tore them apart all fancy like ;P I loved every second of it

Wish more roasts were like this

This or the one genius girl who composed a symphony or something to subtly roast some people she had a disagreement with. I forgot her name, but she is Swedish I believe and she is a musical genius. Her work was based on turning the sound of sirens into something beautiful. It blew my mind. Edit: her name is Alma and she wrote Siren Sounds Waltz

Very sophisticated, indeed. I love it 👏

A court mage, obviously

Or the OG stylist for the royals

My theory is that she was Bertha Banner, Victorian era writer of sewing manuals. Now our Bernadette is stick going through her previous reincarnations writing to figure out how in the world to construct this sleeve.

Chann

@@EnejiChris That dress is great, but its not what royals would have worn. Royals wore much more expensive fabrics, designs and elaborate styles. I'd say that dress was suited to a wealthy gentlewoman or lower status noblewoman.

THANK YOU for ranting about fast fashion by the way, cheap fast clothing that falls apart is just fuelling this absolutely toxic monster of an industry that's really damaging the environment And don't even get me started on wages in this industry, I took commissions when I was young and still just learning and now when people ask me to make things for them I turn them down so fast because I KNOW the cost is going to be too high for them

Or literally any honest artist off like ever

It's like she's gonna slap you with a plethora of Dictionaries if you make her mad

Wifey material

Yeah she’d rip you a new one and the whole ordeal would still be appropriate to put on the kid’s channel 😂

Lol

Bronte its weird how many likes this has and not as much comments xD

Lmao

@@anaistodoroki5661 No it isn't. Hitting 'like' is super easy. Writing a comment takes time and possibly some thought.

Lantern Apocalypse I know 😑 but I meant the amount of people who decided to like it and the amount of people who commented have a huge difference between them

*3am YT reccomendations*

dude,,, same thing. but im glad to see this woman speak clearly yet angrily

🤣 totally

yea-

And as it turns out, the RU-vid algorithm was strangely right! I did in fact want to see a 24 minute long video about a dress and it’s knockoff. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to go become aware of how many synthetics are in my own wardrobe...

That would’ve been the ultimate roast

Bwahahaha

@6Sarcasm._.Lemon9 collecting what

Better: a picture of her wearing the real one with the knockoff on a mannequin next to her

@@Cheezbuckets YESSSSSS-

Wait what? I cant care less about clothing but this is plain disgusting

@@sapateirovalentin348 it's because clothes are a necessity and it can be extremely difficult to differentiate between clothes being inspired by another piece of clothing versus being plagiarised, so in the 1920s (I think?) the American copyright authorities basically decided it didn't apply to fashion. Given how much a mess the rest of American copyright laws are and how much they're based on the whims of massive international corporations like Disney, it's probably for the best they made that decision. But it massively impacts creators at the bottom instead, and that's definitely a discussion which should be more widespread.

How can we support her business

@@redwitch95 Wow I had no idea. I was just reading through some comments and I'm shocked this doesn't qualify as infringement. It's definitely false advertising! Thank you for the information!

@@mae5096 As someone really into the ancient Chinese clothing thing, we kind developed a system to investigate the brand's authenticity lol. We kinda know every brand that is real and stick with them only. I can now identify any dress with its name and the maker now, and yes.. we gave poetic names to each dress..lol. And with group chats, we share, report, and warn others about anything new or suspicious.

in the best way possible

Blossom blood

@left-wingers-are-terrorists. nah. Your stupid to assume brute force is more terrifying than pure knowledge and enraged calmness.

One with the broskis You sir, are absolutely right about that.

@left-wingers-are-terrorists I'd rather be a weak bitch than an absolute buffoon.

Ha

Haha. I watch alot of sewing videos but never do it. Even so, I was offended that these people did this to her. AND of course I feel bad for those who thought they were going to get a bomb ass dress and got a sucky one.

sameee...

Eduardo Comerlatto oops

She got more money for 4+ Million Hits. It was worth it for her for sure. With just $2.00 Per 1,000 Hits. That is about $8000.00 and that does NOT including clicks. You will be surprised what you can do on RU-vid!

That's a hard language to learn

It's strangely therapeutic,

copied commeent

@@yoboi811 h o w

Mm. I think she speaks in cursive

Underrated comment! Lol

It was a typo.. they meant Mislook. Similar to mistake. Can we make mislook into a real word?

MISS me with that LOOK, I tell ya

Bu dum tssss

Ma de in china. Surprisingly they spelled china correctly.

I WAS JUST THINKING THIS

Onmmg ❤️❤️yes

Yes she is

Amen

HERREGUD y e s

nice

In my humble opinion, if you wore the clothes your mother made for you, she knew you appreciated it or would come to, in the years that came. Mother's just have such a keen eye when it comes to their children, they seem to know what we feel or can't find the words to say. I'm sure she knew and loved making every piece of clothing for you.

Thats a very sweet comment.......Im still young (i am 11) its true that sometimes its hard to appreciate the things they do for us.....To be honest i get annoyed sometimes when they tell me what to do, but i know its for my own good....Even sometimes i forget my comment when in a fight......

medranowendy408 ...At least the majority of them. But I agree!

My mother sewed for myself and my two sisters and when we got older and friends saw the uniqueness of our outfits they wanted clothes too. My sisters know how to sew but I took in what our mother taught us and improved on it through books, videos and plain common sense. My biggest successes are formal dresses and gowns and now I mainly concentrate on formal dresses for my baby twin neices.

Is Shein Chinese

@Wadely Pierce most brands steal ideas especially big ones nth is really selfmade anymore today so idk what you want the government to do about that

@Wadely Pierce the Chinese? Or the company?

The company selling the dress was not Chinese, the items were manufactured in China, however the company itself wasn’t Chinese.

@@chronustime It does not matter if the company selling the dress was in China, the fact that people steal other peoples hard work and make it as cheap as possible is till downright disgusting.

Noah Martin Should this be something everyone should know?? I find sewing difficult though I've only tried when i was younger. Why do you think it's a basic skill?

@@ReginaPhelangee To be clear, when I say that sewing is a basic skill, I don't mean making your own garments, necessarily. I mean that everyone should be able to do the most basic mending. If you rip a seam, you should know how to sew it up again; if you lose a button, you should know how to sew it back on rather than throwing away a perfectly good piece of clothing. This may take practice, but it isn't difficult to do, and everyone should learn.

I agree, it's something that everyone should know. Mending a hole or a ripped seam and sewing on a button are the absolute basics, and if you're not trying to 'make' anything, that's really all you'll ever need to know.

@@ReginaPhelangee yes , but the basic one . Which is how to sew up your missing button , or maybe torn apart pants . It really helps .

😂once my pants torn apart in the middle . I asked my teacher for needle and yarn to sew it myself . She was surprised and said there's none male student that sew it by themself before

10:09 she d i d

@@nom8no265 well ig the world has been destroyed and we're now just dreaming about this in the afterlife.

Oh, or my personal bugaboo: Gotta Ugghh!!!

She does say "like" quite frequently...

It also destroys the environment.

Not to blame the system, but id say society for the most part has gone away from hand made crafts and the fact that everyone (probably including me) are just oblivious to it and people just want available clothes over handmade. That being said, i wear all of my shirts till they become holey and then make them into cut offs for summer and or outside work and will beat that shit to the ground. Otherwise, i donate. Also as a kind of "hypebeast" (try not to cringe hear me out) i have a different look into clothes and shoes and such thats made me have a WAY higher appreciation for qualtity and the story of the item. But a sad fact is people just dont care about clothes. They just wear them.

It has more to do with companies (both local and international) abusing cheap labour in China and SE Asia, and, well, people wanting cheap goods. Remember that 90% of the humans (everyone living outside of EU, North America & Japan/South Korea) earn much less than a thousand dollars/Euros a month. It's silly paying 2500$ for a costume when that could feed your family for the better part of a year. And yeah, Chinese environment is completely screwed... my friend who worked as a dance coach in China had to return to Europe because _he started coughing blood_ from inhaling too much smog. Locals get used to it over decades living like that. Russia has a similar problem to China in its Asian part where factories completely destroy habitable life. Plus radiation from the failed nuclear tests. That too... there, people think that a $40 dress is too much so they buy cheap alcohol instead.

and/or their bodies

In general, the internet is theft. Who's going to put the effort into writing a well-reasoned essay when someone can just copy it and post it themselves for free? Steal videos etc. So the next wave of the internet is to create click-bait using other people's work to sell nickel and dime advertisements. Ergo, discourse has been lowered. So, I guess I'm making the parallel with fashion, 100 people spend a lot of time working on ideas and maybe one of them makes some connection with the public, but why bother when some fast fashion company can copy that in a few days and distribute it in months and then have a team of lawyers who don't even have to win the argument that you didn't create it, they just need to bankrupt you.

Sasha Cardoso I know. I honestly absolutely love this. My respect for her grew exponentially throughout the length of the video

oh my god

Whhhhoooooaaaaa

That's really interesting. Thanks for this tidbit of information.

I own a mill spinning yarn!!! For a living! Large heavy machinery, not by hand haha.

woah

Soup Pigeon 1.) I literally could not have said it better. 2.) bonus points for vocabulary.

13:39

No, she's mad.

OMG, #emotionaliq, @nash, you don't know how happy I feel when I meet a minervan outside, we are so small we rarely meet coincidentally.

She kinda does look like a younger, prettier Minerva in her profile picture.

@@lavendermarshmallowplant3229 😂😂

Not at all. Dolores. Merely your medieval methods. (Sorry reminded me of that scene)

Lol ur so right

Child labour: Wait we can get a wage?

It's called automation

the company: wait you were making 1600 dollars? im only making 40! the labourers: youre making 40? we're getting like 2 dollars an hour!! child slaves: wait you guys are getting paid ?

It seems to me that you have little understanding about the economies of scale, agglomeration effect, purchasing power parity, price level, or the exchange rate. Had labour be the only contributing factor to production, textile industries could have long transferred themselves entirely to Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Congo, Guinea... just dropping few names here that, when concerted to USD, have far cheaper manual labour compare to China. Your comment highlights what perhaps may be considered facts in in late 19th century in the US, but certainly too obsolete for the production well after the third industrial revolution.

@@emmawang963 It also seems that you can't make a joke on the internet without writing a 500 words premise on the globalized economy.