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Why Clothing Quality is Declining In Your Favorite Brands (Original Post) Yavin4 Apr 2019 OP
No surprises Raven123 Apr 2019 #1
Part of it is people are so shitty throwing away clothes instead of reselling, donating & recycling. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2019 #2
+1. They sure are cutting corners on jeans dalton99a Apr 2019 #6
I enjoyed this and subscribed to his channel. rainin Apr 2019 #3
too old for this. i have been buying resale or lands end stuff for years. i wear them to death. pansypoo53219 Apr 2019 #4
Apparently he sees his audience as "gents". 2naSalit Apr 2019 #5

Raven123

(4,716 posts)
1. No surprises
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 05:33 PM
Apr 2019

Like so many other consumer goods. Cheap, lower quality materials needed to keep margins adequate to pay stockholders for many public held companies. You just have to wonder whether there is a bottom to poor quaility.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
2. Part of it is people are so shitty throwing away clothes instead of reselling, donating & recycling.
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 06:18 PM
Apr 2019

That means less supply more demand. And the throwaway culture demands faster fashion cycles. So many fashions are unsustainable as a way to dress because of impracticality and fickleness. Consumer culture is all about buy buy buy.

Why make jeans quality when fashion victims are going to slash them and look like trash wearing them? There's one fashion with staying power. It's so ugly it's bizarre.

dalton99a

(81,071 posts)
6. +1. They sure are cutting corners on jeans
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 10:49 AM
Apr 2019

lower-quality/thinner fabric, crappy dye, 5 belt loops instead of 7, non-YKK zippers, etc.

rainin

(3,010 posts)
3. I enjoyed this and subscribed to his channel.
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 10:57 PM
Apr 2019

I hope he goes into more detail on where you can find well-made garments without the luxury price tag in future videos.

pansypoo53219

(20,906 posts)
4. too old for this. i have been buying resale or lands end stuff for years. i wear them to death.
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 07:13 AM
Apr 2019

i am still wearing vintage men's shirts i cut the arms off. 2 died from the new super washing machine. but the others still good. just replaced my white(dyed green) shirt from an estate sale. $1. got home. oh my, its a tuxedo shirt. french cuffs....nah to ebay. cut off the collar top + sleeves. i knit my own too.
not wearing shoes has saved me a BUNDLE.

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