What Can a Person Wear?
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What Can a Person Wear?
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#2It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
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#3It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
Cotton production uses immense amounts of water. It may not contain plastic micro-beads, but it is a eco-disaster.
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#4They talk about waste and impact, and then say things like "OMG if I gain 3 pounds my tailored clothes won't fit". That just means they're getting the wrong kind of clothes then. Get functional clothes that continue to work even if you gain 20 pounds. Don't get clothes that are so useless you can't gain a few pounds. That problem should only exist for children who just keep growing. I don't see why fashion has to be so hard for some people.
It seems this person's idea of what "looks good" is the mainstream thing: useless non-functional clothing that costs way more than it's worth and goes out of style by next week. "Ugh I guess I'll wear peasant clothes and just not look good". Reminds me of people who think wearing makeup is the same thing as looking good.
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#5They talk about waste and impact, and then say things like "OMG if I gain 3 pounds my tailored clothes won't fit". That just means they're getting the wrong kind of clothes then. Get functional clothes that continue to work even if you gain 20 pounds. Don't get clothes that are so useless you can't gain a few pounds. That problem should only exist for children who just keep growing. I don't see why fashion has to be…
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#6From the author’s selfie, she doesn’t seem to crave high fashion, so why not shop at thrift stores? The selection is great, clothing is avoiding the landfill, and it’s cheaper than new.
I have gotten a fine knock-off pea coat, and a Boston Celtics jacket that might come in handy this playoff season. (I grew up in the Boston area.) And lots more.
Most of my clothes are thrift store finds, and many are cotton making a second spin around the block.
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#7From the author’s selfie, she doesn’t seem to crave high fashion, so why not shop at thrift stores? The selection is great, clothing is avoiding the landfill, and it’s cheaper than new. I have gotten a fine knock-off pea coat, and a Boston Celtics jacket that might come in handy this playoff season. (I grew up in the Boston area.) And lots more. Most of my clothes are thrift store finds, and many are cotton making a…
> Of course, you can get around production problem by buying used items. I could go to thrift stores and consignment shops and try to find the few things with all natural fibers, and just wear those, and I could learn how to mend and patch them so they don't have to be tossed as they start to wear out, as natural fibers so easily do.
> I could do that, but I have not done that. Why not? I could say I've been busy, a stock answer that is also true, but I think the real reason goes deeper. The truth is that I avoid natural fabrics because I think they won't look good on me.
> Natural fibers are mostly non-stretchy. I'm not super curvy, but I am moderately curvy. My experience with natural fabric clothing is that it either hangs like a giant pillowcase over my body or it bunches and binds in the ugliest way around my breasts, hips, and stomach.
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#8One 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".
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#9It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
Cotton production uses immense amounts of water. It may not contain plastic micro-beads, but it is a eco-disaster.
Much of the US can grow cotton without irrigation. So in effect it can use effectively zero water in some places and a great deal in others.
People assume water is in a limited supply simply because they live in an area poorly suited to human habitation. Instead there’s more than a 10x difference in annual precipitation between the dryer areas and wet areas of the US: https://www.eldoradoweather.com/climate/US%20Climate%20Maps/...
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#10It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
Cotton production uses immense amounts of water. It may not contain plastic micro-beads, but it is a eco-disaster.
I prefer cotton to plastic fibers floating everywhere in our environment after washing clothes. In plastic clothes, a lot of people (me including) smell awful and no amount of antiperspirants helps.