â€Less than 20% of clothing donations to charities are resold in their stores, according to the Council for Textile Recycling. The rest is downcycled, exported — often to countries in the Global South — or ultimately discarded in landfills.â€
This is the main reason I’ve been selling off my preretirement clothes rather than donating them to charities.
I find Balenciaga kind of eye rolling - the $1000 Ikea bag, the pre-filthified sneakers. I'm not sure if they were the ones who were modeling 'grunge' fashion with $500 plaid shirts and $600 ripped quarter shorts - maybe it was Lauren. Pouting runway models stalking down the catwalk wearing this stuff that we got at Chubby and Tubby - I mean, please lol.
ETA: The clothing styles in that article were a bit lame, though clashing can be cool, too.
LOL. Oh man...that's funny. The first picture of that model in clothes that clash with each other (to say the least) and bare legs with black socks and clunky looking shoes like the office working dad wears to the beach with bermuda shorts...LOL.
Also the blonde with the "convict" striped getup with knee high boots.......LOL.
Later in the article "But the most sustainable choice is simply buying less" Those pictures seem to be trying to achieve that goal.
telegraph_mercantile
·11 months agoI liked this quote from the article:
â€Less than 20% of clothing donations to charities are resold in their stores, according to the Council for Textile Recycling. The rest is downcycled, exported — often to countries in the Global South — or ultimately discarded in landfills.â€
This is the main reason I’ve been selling off my preretirement clothes rather than donating them to charities.
reallynicestamps
OP11 months agoexported — often to countries in the Global South
And ruining their domestic clothing economies in the process.
Meanwhile, China has been exporting their garment making factories and jobs to Kenya for over a decade as part of their economic expansion program.
Partly also because Chinese workers are now more prosperous and demanding higher pay.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/06/why-strong-regional-value-chains-will-be-vital-to-the-next-chapter-of-china-and-africas-economic-relationship/
reallynicestamps
OP11 months agoAre you famililar with Refashioned Hippie on You Tube?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=refashioned+hippie
She really really hates Balenciaga.
chapeau-noir
·10 months agoI find Balenciaga kind of eye rolling - the $1000 Ikea bag, the pre-filthified sneakers. I'm not sure if they were the ones who were modeling 'grunge' fashion with $500 plaid shirts and $600 ripped quarter shorts - maybe it was Lauren. Pouting runway models stalking down the catwalk wearing this stuff that we got at Chubby and Tubby - I mean, please lol.
ETA: The clothing styles in that article were a bit lame, though clashing can be cool, too.
chapeau-noir
·11 months agoWe look at rubbish styling all day - doesn't faze us.
Remember - designer fashion and runway shows are always behind street and desperately trying to stay up. They never do.
roccotacodad54
·11 months agoLOL. Oh man...that's funny. The first picture of that model in clothes that clash with each other (to say the least) and bare legs with black socks and clunky looking shoes like the office working dad wears to the beach with bermuda shorts...LOL.
Also the blonde with the "convict" striped getup with knee high boots.......LOL.
Later in the article "But the most sustainable choice is simply buying less" Those pictures seem to be trying to achieve that goal.
Is eBay trying to sabotage clothing sellers?
reallynicestamps
OP11 months agoThe writer is not eBay. But they sure have an animus against buying second hand clothing.
Just as journalists don't write headlines, they don't choose the illustrations.
At least eBay was the basic illustration for the story -Good News.
The writer doesn't believe in reusable clothing- Bad News.
roccotacodad54
·11 months agoAhh point taken.
reallynicestamps
OP11 months ago@roccotacodad54
shoes like the office working dad wears
The Japanese call him a "salaryman". Useful term, eh?
roccotacodad54
·11 months agoSalaryman. Good description.
I have Japanese folks in my extended family and I mentioned I planted asian pears a few years back and she replied "Oh salad pears".
Apt desription I've found after cubing them up and adding to salads. Especially with acidic dressings, little sweet chunks to offset the acidity.
So I found out I have a couple of salad pear trees....................................