Hi! I am from India..but my family is from Bangladesh originally. I have seen the impact of this fast fashion from childhood..just didn't know the "term" back then. I am glad that you have mentioned about the condition of the workers in this video..as we generally refer to the pollution caused my this industry only..but the problem is beyond that..Humans are directly suffering coz of this fast fashion concept. Sadly the government in my country is completely ignorant about this issue. What is worse than this is here in my country even the consumers are not aware about this issue!
I buy my clothes secondhand from people who don't want them anymore on apps - alot of the clothes have only been used a couple times! 😅 And my money goes to independent people and not the big companies 💚
I have drastically reduced the number of new clothes I buy, and I have stopped buying clothes from synthetic fibers. I work in a small shop where we alter and fix clothes etc. It's mainly hemming pants, but also some mending. I used to think that it was ridiculous when people wanted their bedsheets fixed, when it was nearly every seam that was unravelling and a few holes throughout, but now it genuinely makes me so happy whenever I get to fix stuff people, knowing that it will be used a lot more instead of ending up in landfills because of a ripped seam or a broken zipper!!
Very off topic but I’ve always wanted to ask about hobbies, for example I love to paint and draw and I’ve managed to gather a box full of felts and pens that no longer work and I don’t wanna get rid of them because I feel bad for dumping them, so therefore I feel bad for having such a wasteful hobby so I don’t know what to do about it, what hobbies do you have?
This was literally perfect! Exactly what I needed😂 I’m writing a paper for a sustainability class in college and your little part about H&M is exactly what I needed so thank you lol!!😂
I'm from Bangladesh and we not only don't realise how inhumane this industry is, our government actually prides themselves that we have one of the fastest growing and biggest garments industry in the world (it's even in our textbooks). We literally have countless markets in every city that sell the fast fashion items these brands reject. I have bought from these markets before and 95% of the time you can't even tell what's wrong with these items. They can't obviously sell all the clothes at the rate we produce fast fashion, so thousands of perfectly wearable clothes enter the landfill, every year.
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I have always bought fast fashion bc I simply don't have the money for high fashion Brand and I think it is a waste of money anyway. But. I Buy max 4 pieces per year, even less, this including accessories like bags and shoes. And I still have and wear clothes from 20 years ago. I am actually baffled at the thought that there are people buying new clothes every week or two.
I think that everyone, even people who are not privileged, can make fast fashion smaller and less powerful, if we become more minimalist and realise we really almost don't need to shop for clothes. Then the unpriviledged people who only have fast fashion available would have way less impact too, in the cases where it's really necessary to buy clothes, like when something breaks :) I don't want to shame, just say that everyone can do something, even if it's super tiny, but it helps!
I love mending (and like how visible mending looks) but sometimes things aren't worth mending, money or time wise. I have a couple of items - t shirts, pillow cases, pyjamas... That I keep mending, but a new hole appears almost every single time I use or wash them. It's really frustrating! I didn't know this when I bought them and now I'd feel guilty for throwing them away (not to mention the amount or time I've spent on them and on darning and embroidery on then.) On the other hand I have a couple tops that my mom bought in the 80s that are still going strong. Also, am I the only one who's noticed that there's a difference in this between men and women's clothes? My partner's t-shirts seem to last forever despite him using a dryer, while I constant get holes despite washing on delicate and air drying. What's with that?
This was super informative! I did want to point out that when you have children, sometimes it's harder to avoid fast fashion due to the fact that they grow out of items so quickly that if you were replacing sustainable clothing a few times per year it would be insanely expensive. But that being said you can definitely get around it via swaps, hand-me-downs, Facebook Marketplace, thrift stores. 😊. In regards to thrift shops...do you have any tips on how to shop to get the most bang for your buck? Here in Canada there is one "chain" thrift store in particular that prices their things quite high...to the point where it is a lot of times cheaper to buy new from the original retailer. I am so happy I discovered your channel, I am learning a lot. 😊
A thrift shop chain near me has started selling a specific brand of socks, hats, and scarves. I don't know if they are producing their own brand or have a deal with a brand, but its cheaply made product being sold brand new at a thrift shop and its worrying.
the goodwill near my house has tons of stuff like this. not just clothes but they sell brand new packages houseware and clothing stuff, my guess is they are overstock from warehouses that get sent to charity shops instead of to the garbage. I don't know for sure though, im just making a guess
yes, exactly! this video is ideal to spread amongst people, it is not insanely long and it is superinformative about the issue. the video could be whole 3 hours documentary.. love how Gittemary pull this of
I want to add in lieu of clothing swaps because covid, you can join buy nothing groups on various social media and swap that way. People can post needs and gives of any kind of thing, and it helps people get what they need without spending money and people to clean out their closets/cabinets. I literally just yesterday gave a big bag of vintage clothes to someone from a buy nothing group. Especially for people with kids, you see those requests and offers a lot since kids often grow out of things before they are worn out.
I could just add the joy of being individual and buying, keeping and using clothing that you love, regardless of trends or fashion. Especially now when I don’t think there is any particular fashion. I always get more compliments on things I’ve had for years than anything new, just because it is different.
I used to work at forever 21 and when she was talking about those individual plastic bags that each item comes in *oof* 😬 We could easily fill 10+ extra large trash bags with those plastic bags over the course of 1 shift. Yikes.
I've been interested in this topic recently, so it was great to have your video to watch. In the video you mentioned some documentaries, but do you have any book recomendations on this topic?
I do understand fast fashion is a problem, but by us not buying the products, aren't workers who produce them going to get fired because of the decreasing income of the companies?
Excellent video! I love repairing my clothing. At one point(a couple decades ago) I was actually keeping track of the money I saved by repairing items. Mind boggling! Also doing a no spend challenge this year so that’s kept everything quiet in my wardrobe 😊
The cheapest way to mend something is to do it yourself, but it takes more time to do that than buy something new sometimes, so it's more time privilege than monetary privilege I think...
This is absolutely true. I have spent upwards of 15 hours doing repairs on my husband's 'franken-coat' the last few years. He keeps ripping it in new places and new spots wear down, but he keeps asking me to patch it, so I do.
Time and money privilege have a tendency of going hand-in-hand, not always of course. But if you are struggling to pay bills and work three jobs you rarely have the time to repair socks as well 😔
I saw info about fast fashion i think in 2014, I didnt know what to do. When i get into ILO, i realize just how damn complicated this is, how big this problem is. Since a few years ago I stopped buying clothes in malls with big chains and started thrifting everything aside from the essentials, and I realize it... doesn't really have any negative aspect for me, it's cheap, it's ethical. A lot of people needs to know about this, help in their own little way. Imo, even little acts could make an impact.
I will be the first to admit that I have a hoarding problem but for some reason I was never into clothing hauls or hoarding clothes. Also I wish we used old paper and fabrics as insulation.
Love the video. I used to feel so guilty buying new clothes that I would severely limit myself to maybe 4 pieces of clothing per year. And then I started watching zero waste videos and damn...there are some really amazing second hand finds out there.
Hi Gitte Mary and fellow appreciators of this channel, thanks Gitte Mary for posting about this disgusting practice of selling trash in fraudulent ways to emerging nations, in the guise of ‘business’, grrr! I am using my grr for powering my dissemination of this information-thank you for all of your really awesome work!😁 Here’s a link to another documentary made by Australian show Foreign Correspondent, a must see, plus it is full of beautiful Handpan music too! Kindly, Sharlot. 😁💜🌻
My aim next year is to make and buy all "new" clothes secondhand. I have alot of clothes so there is literally no reason for me to buy anything from fast fashion brands
Hello, I have a question. I already watched the true coast two times but ones I a while I just like to watch it again to remind myself. But I can’t find the documentary. I love in the Netherlands and watched it on Netflix but it is removed from Netflix an can’t find it anywhere else. Do you now were you still can see it? Thanks in advance. Lots of love Esmeralda
Hi gittemary!! Your video was so interesting. I love this topic too and I liked the way you exposed your ideas. There’s so much research to do and too much to talk about this. Btw I like your new intro!!!
Here I am. No thrift shops available where I live nor do I have the budget to buy online and spend 20-30$ on a seconds hand shirt when I have food to buy
Ya.....it's amazing how much plastic is on a garment. I work for a large store as a stock person. I hate when a brand will send their clothing which is individually cover with plastic bags. Wishing they would package 1 plastic bag over all the stuff in one box instead of individually. It would save more plastic and more time for me to take off the plastic. Thanks for your video.
I used to use shopping as literal therapy. It was a quick "happy" fix and everything would be better for like, a day. I've always gone to thriftstores, but for a long time, couldn't convince my friends to do the same with the kind of regularity we went to, Forever 21 for instance. Now I solely go to thriftstores, make my own things (the best to my ability) and the only thing I buy new are undergarments and socks. I havent figured out good socks yet. With all this said, I do appreciate this video and all of the hard work you put into it. It's always a nice reminder for why I don't buy clothes new anymore. The only thing I truly truly want, but I A. haven't found the fabric in a thriftstore yet and B. its basically plastic, is a ridiculous faux leopard jacket. I don't know why, but I have always wanted one. Can't get pasted the whole, but its plastic thing enough to make it or buy it.
All my clothes are at least 2 -3 years old. I'm one of those weirdos who wears something until it wears out! I've had a local tailor turn long sleeve shirts into short sleeves when the cuffs began to fray, and I cut jeans into shorts or capris when the bottom hem frays.
Hi! Do you have a way that you talk to friends or family about not buying fast-fashion? I haven't bought fast-fashion in a long time but a lot of my friends and family still buy fast fashion ALL the time and whenever I'm with them shopping I never know what to say because I don't want to seem judgmental or rude. Money and resources aren't a problem for most of them (I know they can afford and have access to good quality secondhand or sustainable clothing) so I feel like I should say something when out shopping with them but I really don't want to feel like a jerk haha. Thank you for making such amazing videos :)
One the most mind blowing things to me is how makers are recently developing new kinds of artificial yarns (eg biodegradable Nylon) that will "biodegrade" in an anaerobic environment, aka an environment without 02, which means landfill. I cannot fathom how, instead of developing a more sustainable and circular process, they are pretty much inviting and enabling consumers to throw stuff away with the promise that "it will biodegrade anyway, don't worry, keep over consuming". It makes me so damn angry how big companies want us to think they are already doing their best, when in fact they aren't even doing the bare minimum.
love the video (and the new intro too) ❤️ fast fashion or better say the textile industry is such a big issue. I call the textile industry as a silent killer of the planet bc there are so many things crazilly wrong and yet some people don't have any idea about it, so thank you very much for this insight to the problem🙏
I do a lot of sewing and yes I do buy quite a lot of my fabric (which is not much) new and I’ve noticed often brand new fast fashion pieces actually cost less than buying the fabric as an individual
thank you for sharing this important info! especially important to keep in mind as we go into the holidays, it’s so easy to get caught up on buying gifts
About the statistic saying that we buy 400% more clothes than we did 100 years ago, keep in mind what was going on 100 years ago. World War 1 and the Great Depression was a very big reason for people not being able to afford lots of new clothes all the time especially when rationing was going on. Not saying at all that i disagree with the message of this video, I just think that circumstance makes a big difference and should be kept in mind regarding statistics like that
Wow! You are amazing! If you have any other sustainable fashion/sustainable lifestyle RU-vidrs that you subscribe to, can you please do a short video on this????
Wow thank you so much for this video! Fast Fashion is still such a huge and important topic and we should continue the conversation 🙏🏼🙏🏼 I also made a video about the impact of Fast Fashion, if you want you can check it out ⚡️
Wooouuaahhh! It's a great comprehensive summary of all the fast-fashion problems... so many that it seems discouraging. But we can make changes! And I like your outro, it's really helpful to see what is actionable as a customer! I hope in 10 years we won't see any fast-fashion brand anymore. And, it's going to be a better world if we don't all wear the same pieces of clothes! 😄
I just wanted to say that you are putting out very valuable content and I like that you're speaking up about things that lots of people try to be ignorant about. ❤️
