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Related: About this forumRaven123
(4,716 posts)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)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)lower-quality/thinner fabric, crappy dye, 5 belt loops instead of 7, non-YKK zippers, etc.
rainin
(3,010 posts)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)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.