What is sustainable fashion & how to make good clothing choices
Capitalism’s great trick is to make us long for stuff we simply don’t need. Which is fine, to an extent, but at the tail end of high capitalism fast fashion is proving to be extremely wasteful and damaging to our environment. Every day billions of people buy clothes with no thought of what will happen to those purchases at the end of their lifespan. That lifespan is getting shorter by the year - currently in the uk the average number of times a piece of clothing is worn is 7. Collectively we throw away 2.1 billion tons of fashion every year. And that’s just the clothes that are actually sold. From the huge inventories of big fast fashion conglomerates 20...