I have holes in old jeans too @B3 but not in designer places.
Having lost 12 kilos since first lockdown I can now get into clothes I made 20+ years ago and have kept because they're still good - well made and good cotton/linen/wool. I've been altering more recent items to fit me now and will have to start on the summer frock mods soon. OH still wears a cotton summer shirt we bought in Tuscany in 1998. We know what shapes and colours suit us by now so buy classic styles. As it wears out it all ends up recycled for painting or gardening when it really can't go out in public anymore.
Senior SIL, on the other hand, has an annual budget for new clothes every season and isn't bothered about who made them or using natural fabrics. Neither she nor BIL care about foreign workers' conditions and think I'm mad for refusing the price benefits of Chinese goods. Primark opened stores in Belgium just a year or two before we left. I advised Possum and the younger people I knew not to shop there because of sweat shop conditions but, apart form Possum, they weren't interested.
I hope they wake up soon because it's their planet now.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I can semi follow buying faded jeans, but how on earth did marketing people manage to persuade people to buy clothes with holes in them? Why does that 'look good'? I can ever follow a semi-sexual thing depending on where the holes are (shame on you @B3) - but holes in the knees? Another song springs to mind - The King Is In The Altogether ..... my life is just one big musical...Don't you wish you could be inside my head? No?...well it's you who's missing out....says he, dancing down the road....maybe the vaccine is having an effect after all.
Have you seen the hordes in UK Primarks @B3? The UK has one of the worst records for buy, wear once or twice and then chuck it in landfill of the entire developed world.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I read this week that the energy used to run Bitcoin is almost the same as that used by Holland. And there's an electronic data storage unit outside Dublin which uses more energy to store billions of pointless photos etc from " the cloud " than the rest of Dublin uses to function.
@steveTu - we could be twins 😃 I was the same with clothes, I used to joke at work that if they saw me in my Allotment gear they would have me thrown out as a tramp. I went to the local tip this morning to get rid of a load of accumulated garden waste. I was the only one using the green waste bin. There was a mountain of clothing in the textiles area . People have obviously spent lockdown sorting out their wardrobes.
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Having lost 12 kilos since first lockdown I can now get into clothes I made 20+ years ago and have kept because they're still good - well made and good cotton/linen/wool. I've been altering more recent items to fit me now and will have to start on the summer frock mods soon. OH still wears a cotton summer shirt we bought in Tuscany in 1998. We know what shapes and colours suit us by now so buy classic styles. As it wears out it all ends up recycled for painting or gardening when it really can't go out in public anymore.
Senior SIL, on the other hand, has an annual budget for new clothes every season and isn't bothered about who made them or using natural fabrics. Neither she nor BIL care about foreign workers' conditions and think I'm mad for refusing the price benefits of Chinese goods. Primark opened stores in Belgium just a year or two before we left. I advised Possum and the younger people I knew not to shop there because of sweat shop conditions but, apart form Possum, they weren't interested.
I hope they wake up soon because it's their planet now.
And there's an electronic data storage unit outside Dublin which uses more energy to store billions of pointless photos etc from " the cloud " than the rest of Dublin uses to function.
I went to the local tip this morning to get rid of a load of accumulated garden waste. I was the only one using the green waste bin. There was a mountain of clothing in the textiles area . People have obviously spent lockdown sorting out their wardrobes.