No one wants your old clothes

[calinewarkwc69]

Textile waste is piling up at catastrophic levels thanks to the fast-fashion industry.

Comments

[adalmin]

I started learning how to sew for this very reason. Stopped buying fast fashion and tried to buy Made in USA, if buying at all. I don't even buy fabric any more because I have enough clothing to refashion.

[jeliza]

I knew it was bad, but not that it was *this* bad. Maybe I'll have the kids read this so they'll be more patient when our shopping trips take forever because we always start at Goodwill and such.

[honorh]

*Sigh* Yeah, and I've got old, unwearable clothing I can't let go of for just this reason. I don't believe in giving clothing with stains and holes to charity, and I'd love to recycle, but it's just not practical, as this article points out.

[calinewarkwc69]

So, I'm thinking about asking my friends for all their old clothes so that I can quilt them together and give them to homeless. We have a really bad homeless problem regionally and they ALWAYS ask for blankets or pillows, so I feel like quilting old clothes into blankets for them is about the best thing that can be done at this point.

[sugartitty]

I think that's an awesome idea

[moonshaz]

That sounds like a great idea to me!

[un_fantasma]

I feel like I should have known this but if I'm not giving old clothes to friends who wear my size I'm donating them. I think from now on I'm just gonna turn my old clothes into rags and toys for my cats. Also for anyone with curly hair, cotton t-shirts are better to dry your hair with since it produces less frizz, so you can turn old shirts into hair towels.

[ioplokon]

very into changes happening in how clothes are made. tbh i think the best thing would be if there were more decent-quality low-to-mid price clothes? cause like i do actually sew and mend my clothes as much as i can (i've actually got 2 h&m sweaters that i'm like constantly patching up -_-), but there's really only so much you can do before things are threadbare. & then i'm so sick of everyone being like 'well instead you can spend $250 on a high-quality shirt!!!!' cause that is just never going to be a workable financial decision for me?

[skittish_derby]

That 250 dollar shirt isn't always a higher quality shirt either, and that's the kicker.

[ioplokon]

lmao right? and i really have no idea how you would even tell what is good/not good. plus i notice none of the expensive places ppl have told me to go employ a unionized workforce or anything...

[littlelistmaker]

mte it turns into a lot of finger wagging at people who will never reasonably be able to spend a lot of money on one item of clothing, regardless of the fact that higher price does not guarantee the item will last longer.