£300 – £500 per month on clothes
WTF ?!?
I’ve recently been doing some design work for a major fashion retailer. Talking to the buyers, the number of units of both expensive designer gear, and cheaper, essentially disposable fashion, that they shift is absolutely staggering. There must be a lot of people out there spending an awful lot of money on clothes
If it makes kids (and it’s mostly kids) think a bit more about how clothes can be made so cheaply
It really isn’t kids at all. I’ve got two teenage daughter and I can assure you that the younger generation are actually far more environmentally conscious than older generations. They have to be
My 15 year old buys pretty much all her clothing second hand off sites like Depop and trawling charity shops. She turned up to meet me the other day having raided my wardrobe and dug out an old Fox hooded sweatshirt of mine (definitely over 10+ years old), which she’d then re-purposed with a pair of scissors and accessorised with various stuff. Looked better than it ever did on me.
The people chucking perfectly good clothes into landfill are people plenty old enough to know better