It's Not Just Shein: Why Are ALL Your Clothes Worse Now?
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コメント (21)
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My favorite part of this is that spending more money on something does absolutely nothing to guarantee the quality of a product. Absolute garbage is being sold as high end.
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Even fabric to sew your own clothes is not good anymore. The entire textile industry has just plummeted.
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There's a old saying "If private equity buys your employer, find yourself a new job"
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When I was a little girl, my grandmother, aunts and most of our neighbors worked making clothing in American factories. There was a commercial of a lady singing "look for the union label." I haven't heard that lady singing in decades.
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Can we talk about how thrift stores are charging even more money even though the clothes are worth less?
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I swear to god every video I watch about "why is XYZ product or service so shitty now?" contains a segment about "...and then private equity started buying everything." EVERY SINGLE TIME
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Yes, it's not just clothes, it's many things that have deteriorated in quality and don't last long, like furniture, electronics, children's toys, etc.
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it's the absolute worst for all of us growing up through this. So much good stuff came out, but we couldn't buy it because we didn't make our own money, and now that I can afford things, I'm barely buying shit because everything feels so cheap and looks so terrible. I swear, the moment I was able to make money, they swapped out all merchandise.
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When private equity gets involved in anything it goes to hell.
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Almost impossible to find 100% wool, linen, or silk in stores. Everything is plastic! which makes you hotter in the summer since it traps body heat. I hate it
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Even socks aren’t made to last anymore. The fabric has gotten thinner; therefore forming holes much faster
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THe zipper change was the first change I noticed. As a man, every pair of jeans used to have nice YKK zippers that had a locking notch to keep the zipper from falling. It never jammed and it slid nice.
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Fast fashion is wild, it's like "we have this material that will take centuries to break down, and with it we've made clothes that you can wear once"
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It’s so depressing. Everything feels gross, looks gross, everything feels cheap
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This all started decades ago. When I was a child, in the 1960's, people would get one winter coat a year, one pair of boots a year, why? Because clothes were expensive, they were made in the USA by union employees.
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As a small girl in the 90s we went shopping for each season . That was it. No extra clothes because we wwre bored and go shopping. We got what we needed.
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I buy pretty much all of my clothes from thrift stores, and the fast fashion industry is starting to ruin those, too. They're filling up with garbage plastic clothes, it's tragic. Real wool and cotton is getting rarer and rarer. Occasionally an old man dies and a few silk shirts show up, but it's rare.
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My biggest complaint is shoes. When I was a teenager, shoes had weight to them! They were made of genuine leather and other durable materials. Now, they are basically made of plastic and styrofoam and sold for more money! And, most of all, they don’t last!
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none of this was new to me, but the way this video has been constructed with such a clear narrative throughline and maintaining engagement is really outstanding.
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No one talks about how much shedding synthetic clothing has. Basically, by wearing these clothes, you are filling your home and even your natural clothes (when washing them together with synthetics) with dust. Plastic dust.
