I've been annoyed for a while now about the low quality of a lot of the clothing I see in stores these days.
I know "fast fashion" has an "upside" namely, it's relatively cheap. Why the price of raw cotton doesn't reflect the huge impact on the environment and the need for lots of drinking-quality water, is beyond my current understanding. I guess the countries and companies involved rather have the income now and the bad outcome for the environment is only an afterthought, I guess?
Anyways, because cheap cotton and linnen exists and because cheap labor is also abundant, we now have fast fashion. And fast fashion gets out of fashion fast, too. So we throw it away.
This ends up in land fills or the cotton is recycled into cleaning cloths, at an extra expense of more water and energy.
This is a long story to get to my point: I prefer slow fashion. I try to buy stuff that I will still wear ten or 15 years from now. You can do this too. Extra points if you manage to buy that high quality clothing for cheap in a second hand store 😊.
The fact that some clothing from certain countries has a low-quality feel to it, has more to do with choices and less with the quality of the workers involved. This article wonderfully explains the economic reasons for some low quality production: https://ruthtillman.com/post/all-clothing-is-handmade/
