Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force is grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change. Women picking cotton in India’s sun-baked fields are toiling in temperatures of roughly 113 degrees Fahrenheit, while workers in Ghana’s Kantamanto — one of the...
This is a painfully bad situation. And what’s worse is that we shouldn’t even call it “fast fashion”, it’s really: “Shitty clothing that most people are stuck with because that’s all they can afford.”
Fast fashion makes it sound like bougie niche brands that 20 somethings put themselves into debt over to keep up with trends. But it’s also everyday people brands sold at Kohl’s, Walmart, Target, etc. I get the analogy intent (fast food, fast fashion) but it’s backfired in that everyone assumes the problem is uncontrolled selfish vapid people. The problem is all of us because we’re trapped without options.
(Bit of a terminology quibble)
The quality of the already shitty clothing is even worse now. Ex: a shirt I bought at Kohl’s in February had several small holes by the end of March - the dye hadn’t even started to fade yet. Same brand, same cut and style of shirt I’d purchased a year before (the bar was already low on quality), the likes of which I’d been purchasing year over year as replacements.
I have to shuffle my budget to find the money to buy higher quality – most people can’t.
I have to find a new retailer/brand with the style, material, and size options – online is fine for some things but most people aren’t like me, buying the same shirt on repeat, and frankly, I don’t enjoy buying clothing online as a non-man because no one uses a standardized measurement system for women’s clothing.
“Higher end” clothing is often garbage quality with a name that inflates the price – most people don’t want, nor should be expected, to become fabric and tailoring experts just to pick out their wardrobe pieces.
Don’t get me started on kids clothes.
Anyway, we can vow to shop used/secondhand all we want but this is a massive system problem that needs heavy regulation enacted quickly to force substantive change.
[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...
Paragraph #4: Too long with a lot of flip-flop between the author’s stance on digital format and the need for physical. Be confident here and focus on the important part by eliminating the caveats and the “need to cover all the bases”. Once that’s done, this will be a powerful, concise message.
I like where you’re going with this and heartily agree!
There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will...
I planted a raised bed full of different varieties of kale, my two pots of blueberries are going crazy already, and I’m trying to get micro clover to take over the “lawn” area. The last part is tricky because I desperately want it to consume all the empty spaces that turn to dust in the summer, but it’s currently a gunky clay that sticks to everything. Fingers crossed!
we discovered this set the other day by olivvybee (Liv Asch), and obviously these are delightfully thematic for our instance. you should be able to find them in our emoji picker as follows. the emoji icon, at least on desktop, is the fourth from left smiley face on comment/post UI:...
Why are store bought whole pickled beets so much smaller than the beets you’d buy or harvest fresh? Are they picking them when small? Whittling big ones down to one-bite size?...
The exact setup my kids would seek out as toddlers for a good napping spot. Freaked me out as a parent trying to find them, but I get it. Cozy, secure, blocks out the world.
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
A fun read! And I really appreciate the effort they put in to replicate the messaging experience for each entry as you scrolled down the page (at least as it appeared on mobile browser).
“Tell me about a time when…” If I had the time, I would go to interviews just to shut this shit down. I don’t need the job, I just want to beat it into hiring managers’ heads that this is BS and needs to stop. If those questions aren’t given to the interviewee ahead of time to prepare, it’s off the table.
What a nightmare process. Where I’m at they can have someone lined up for a position but still have to post it, screen applicants, then pick the person they already wanted for the role, a big waste of time. But what you’re describing, good grief, that’s horrible for everyone, even the people outside of the hiring process.
Need? No. But sometimes when I’m standing in a pool of people and despair and I can’t picture things getting better, I kind of just want a BFF little buddy like WALL-E or BD-1 who just gets me without judgement, and doesn’t require me to be its caregiver.
Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.
I have no idea how people who aren’t tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price. (fullerproject.org)
Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force is grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change. Women picking cotton in India’s sun-baked fields are toiling in temperatures of roughly 113 degrees Fahrenheit, while workers in Ghana’s Kantamanto — one of the...
After the fall of Small Press Distribution, is it time for “Bandcamp for Small Presses?”
[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...
What's Growing On, Beehaw? Weekly Garden Chat
There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will...
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers (www.theverge.com)
Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.
minor PSA (bee-SA?): you should now be able to use the Blobbee emoji set under our emoji picker
we discovered this set the other day by olivvybee (Liv Asch), and obviously these are delightfully thematic for our instance. you should be able to find them in our emoji picker as follows. the emoji icon, at least on desktop, is the fourth from left smiley face on comment/post UI:...
Pickled Beets Question (beehaw.org)
Why are store bought whole pickled beets so much smaller than the beets you’d buy or harvest fresh? Are they picking them when small? Whittling big ones down to one-bite size?...
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16368424...
Common food preservative has unexpected effects on the gut microbiome (www.eurekalert.org)
The strange reasons medieval people slept in cupboards (www.bbc.com)
Short answer: it helped keep you warm....
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
You Don’t Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. And Money. (www.bloomberg.com)
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
How different languages laugh online (restofworld.org)
AI Is Helping Indigenous Teens in Brazil Keep Their Mother Tongue Alive (reasonstobecheerful.world)
70% Of Workers Lie On Resumes, New Study Shows (www.forbes.com)
Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (apnews.com)
Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7492853...
Orcas Are Learning Terrifying New Behaviors (www.scientificamerican.com)
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