This 100%!!! I'm so glad I found your content, it's so nice to hear someone talking about this, especially with such realistic examples. That is truly what much of my wardrobe looks like -- things I've loved, and will continue to love. Thoughtful purchasing is so key to actual sustainable shopping, and I love your honesty and poignancy.
Totally!! I saw a video that said that the average American wears an item only 7 times before throwing it away 😵😵😵💫 that is a problem no matter if its fast or low fashion
Thank you! The public perception of sustainable fashion is just a marketing strategy…to get you to buy more things. Yuck. While it’s good to push companies to produce clothes ethically, as consumers it’s important to shield ourselves from all the consumerism propaganda we get bombarded with every day.
I think it wouldn't matter so much where you buy clothes so long as they are worn and taken care of. So many declutters people get rid of tagged items, just to refill their closets with more things they will never wear. Or wear once for a video!
Most my closet doesn't come from sustainable brands, but I wear everything for years and years. When I hear how much clothing goes to landfill it really makes me upset, I just don't understand how people buy things to only to wear once, and even then why not sell or donate it? There will probably be someone happy to have it. On the note of fast fashion though, I would say fast fashion is probably better bought in person so you can feel the fabric and know that you're buying something that isn't going to disintegrate after one wash and become trash haha.
Thank you so much for this!! Often (at least currently), a number of sustainable fashion brands have insane prices that aren’t affordable to the average person. Buying from fast fashion isn’t inherently bad, it’s when you buy hundreds of clothes from them that will only get worn once before being thrown away
Honestly as long as you take care of your cloths (wash them correctly) and mend them you are doing way more than the average person. Investing into natural fibres is usually a good idea from the fiscal and comfort perspective as well
@@nonniperkl6273I’m a fast fashion shopper mainly SHEIN and I don’t dry anything in the dryer only air dry and have had 0 problems with 20+ clothes after 2 years I feel like it doesn’t rlly matter where it’s from or how much it is indeed
I feel like a lot of the current sustainable fashion industry is more in the business of letting rich people feel better without changing their habits than actually saving the planet. I understand that using high quality materials and paying a living wage comes with a price increase, but sorting through all of the brands to figure out which ones are truly doing good vs which ones are greenwashing because it’s trendy takes a lot of time too. That takes even more time if you’re also on a strict budget. On a personal level I believe that the best thing you can do is to treat your own closet sustainably regardless of where the individual items are purchased from. Do whatever you can personally afford to do because at the end of the day the companies that run the fast fashion industry are the ones doing the most damage
I got the same pair of vans in 2018 from an outlet store! I wore them yesterday! I also have a bunch of goodwill shoes I haven't worn more than twice 😅
I buy all my stuff second hand I love finding treasures in second hand stores or vinted and in my opinion I think it's more sustainable then buying new eco friendly clothes cause everything that I will ever need has already been produced already I just got to find it.
I was gonna say I’m gonna keep buying my Birkenstocks cause I have had zero sandals last me 5+ years, I wore my current burka to volleyball tournaments during snowy upstate ny winter (cause I was lazy and didn’t want to unlace any kind of boots or ruin my uggs) I wore them almost exclusively through the past 5 summers I’ve had them and they are still going. I will be repurchasing, and no I won’t be buying sandals that last one summer and it’s a the best I can hope for.
Idk how true that is either but the entire plastic recycling industry is heavily greenwashed. Only the few most valuable types are worth the money to recycle so most of it ends up in landfills or the incinerator anyway. I’d guess that making clothing is probably one of the most sustainable uses for plastic though because the item can ideally be used for years to come. Obviously not all cheap garments will make it that long and some people will throw out perfectly wearable clothing but it’s far better than all of the unrecyclable single use plastics that get made
It’s because of the process they have to do to reuse plastic.. it uses crude oil and the chemicals they use to break down plastic is harmful for your body! Also no matter if it’s recycled plastic it’s still microplastics going into the ocean! Which end up in the fish we eat!
