99% this was a marketing piece masquerading as a blogpost - see plug at the bottom.
Whether or not it was intentional, it certainly fits the model of "creating anxiety relievable by purchase"
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#22The modern trend for everything to be "fitted" for the most part didn't exist a few decades ago - look at older photos of people wearing suits in the street, they generally were a bit baggier especially trousers. In addition, people spent a lot more on clothing than they do now as a percentage of income. There are also still now plenty of cultures in which clothing isn't intended to hug the body. I think that the aut…
Yeah it's cyclical. Fashion goes from tight fitting to loose to baggy and back again.
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#23It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
I remember when fleece and microfiber fabrics (made out of recycled plastic bottles) were introduced and loved because it "kept plastic out of the waste stream." Nobody thought ahead to "those cheap blankets and jackets are going to be thrown away too" (I've never seen fleece fabric accepted for recycling) and "they shed microfibers every time you wash them."
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#2499% this was a marketing piece masquerading as a blogpost - see plug at the bottom.
Funny, I don't remember any plug. If there was one, I didn't read it. I read the comments, I noticed a couple of book covers to some books I didn't read the title of, and I run an adblocker.
I mean, there was all sorts of little chrome bits on the page. I noticed the photo, I can't tell you want any of the text around the photo said. Mabye I caught the name (starts with a P? Maybe?).
I'm not saying there is no plug. I'm not saying it's not a "marketing piece masquerading". But I am saying, that, anecdotally, for me, that way I consume content, if that was the goal -- it didn't work.
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#25One thing I learned about recently was that clothes now are a single size where clothing from the past had features that allowed changes in weight and size without needing to throw the clothes away. It might be time to look at adjustable clothing styles again, but it would require a fashion change as there isn't much that can be done to a t-shirt to make it "adjustable".
Clothes still exist that are adjustable, I buy them often.
You just won't find them in Primark for £6.
You could never get good quality clothes for less than an hour of working class wages, it doesn't make sense because they take more than an hour's labour to produce.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing about the complaint that natural fibers are ill-fitting is a bit odd. It's true that less stretchy clothing is more forgiving, but it's also true that the ill-fitting aspect is because of the cut, not the fiber. The problem can be easily and (relatively) cheaply fixed by having the garment altered to fit you.
> Now, I know the answer to this as well: tailoring. You read any serious piece about fashion and fit and they will tell you that to look good, you have to get your clothes tailored to fit your body by someone who knows what they are doing. > I can imagine a world in which that is a standard activity that I could engage in, but our world is not that world. Last time I wanted pants made shorter, most places I went wan…
For some reason, I missed that part.
It sounds like she lives in an area lacking in in tailors. That's too bad. Perhaps an alternative is to learn how to do it herself?
> Plus, what if I gain or lose a few pounds? Am I going to get things perfectly fitted around my torso then be unable to wear them a month later?
No. A good fit will easily accommodate gaining or losing a few pounds without requiring another round of tailoring.