Can we take a pause from “fast fashion”? Actually can we give it up? Given the scope of this industry, a pause is iffy and abandonment is aspirational. Air polluter, water waster, landfill contributor, sweatshop enabler. What’s not to hate? I’ll add social media, particularly Instagram which begets Insta-envy, Insta-buy and Insta-toss.
Of the $123 billion that will be spent this year on trendy, poorly made clothes, depending on whom you ask, between $75 and $100 billion of that dubious fashion will be in a landfill by 2024. Bad numbers, but making them even worse- a goodly portion of those discards will have never been worn.
After pausing, consider “slow fashion”. This dress is 70 years old and has been worn by 23 babies spanning 3 generations. There is nothing trendy about it. It works just as beautifully in 2023 as in 1953. Belgian lace, cotton batiste, tiny pearl buttons, hand stitching.
What’s not to love? Then, now, later.