#fast fashion brands

[cadaverkeys]

Idk why people think it's funny to buy shit from shien or temu or whatever slavery-corp is popular at the time just to video themselves laughing at the quality of the products. It's badly made because it's unrelentingly shoved through a production line for a few pennies each garment- this isn't fucking "content" and honestly these rich influencers should feel ashamed to openly admit that they're buying from companies that force their workers into slavery conditions.

#i understand some people dont know any better / some people feel that they have no other option for clothing themselves #and theres no ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc etc #but theres no point where you should think its cute or quirky to buy products from slavery production lines #and i dont think that should be controversial #i understand that most fast fashion brands use the same outsourcing of labor as shien #honestly theyre shit too #but theres hardly as many zara hauls as shien ones #rambles #i just saw this girl on tiktok laughing about these stupid novelty rings shes bought from shien #and it's like. why would you even admit to this. -_- #and the comments r just laughing along as if theyre not casually admitting to buying from slavery companies

[karlachi]

mend ur clothes paint ur clothes rip em up and sew em together customise ur clothes how u want it'll feel infinitely better than buying fast fashion crap and u will cherish those items foreva

#if u can. obviously #not everyone can but for those who can feel my words infect ur brain #this isnt to shame ppl who buy from fast fashion brands for financial reasons #but if ur fast fashion clothes are showing signs of wear and tear fix em!! #u COULD replace them.... or u could patch them up and embroider cute flowers or a cool ass dragon on them #and then boom ur fast fashion item is longer lasting and ur own creation that u can wear proudly #u can sew a rip together #and darn over a threadbare section #if u have gained/lost weight u can try to adjust them bc theres lots of guides out there #u can embroider over a stain or just purposefully add more so it looks deliberate #eg. bleach painting #also if u were just gonna throw it out buy a replacement anyway why not give mending a go!! #or cut it up to make patches for future mends

[daphneblakess]

that "what's the most expensive piece of clothing you own" poll going around is exactly why i wouldn't trust any of yall with a guillotine bc a couple hundred dollars is a very reasonable price for a well-made and heavy duty winter coat, especially if it's real fur. short of teleporting into a utopian future where ethical and sustainable fashion also comes at a rock bottom price point i would love to hear your alternate proposals

#listen i'm a fellow Poor it's only been the last couple of years when i could afford more than fast fashion #but if you have the means why wouldn't you pay a little more for something that's made better and will last five times longer #yes some of the big name designer brands are cons just price pointing a brand #but if some of you had it your way the revolution would be corporate sponsored by shein

[fuckingstupidbracket]

like a regular bin, not even recycled or anything

#poll #okay so uh #dont read the tags ahead unless you care about my little vent #my mom got me a hoodie in December from shein #even tho i had two very similar hoodies already both from better brands #still fast fashion but not as fast #and one of them was modded by me #but the hoodie was fucking soft and comfy and good length so it quickly became my favourite hoodie #according to my mother tho after a month she started complaining that it's ugly. #it had those little balls idk what they're called but #1 i don't fucking care #2 they're removable #so anyway fot the past week or two shes been complaining every time i wore the hoodie and today she screamed at me and threw it in the trash #she also kicked me but thats unrelated #and like even if she bought me a new identical one that wouldn't help at all cause she still threw my stuff in the trasg #and bought from a company that goes against my values #and she keeps excusing it like “its cheaper” #im sorry but buying one good thing and wearing it too death is cheaper than buying a hundred things you throw away after less than 3 months #so fucking sick of this!!!!!!!! #i have more than enough clothes too and am currently trying to get rid of some #BUT NOT LIKE THAT WHAT THE FUCK #btw my vinted is dupiarz it's mostly stuff from 2017-2020 so not really trendy but maybe youd like something #the pnly clothing i dont bother repairing and just throw out is underwear #but i do fix socks because good socks are good socks

[existencebringsonlypain]

reverse nerdy girl makeover Disney Channel original movie, where a girl moves away from her old town and slowly comes to realize in the new environment she's in that her old friend group was super toxic. her new friends help her rediscover her interests, be herself even if others judge her, wear clothing in a style she actually likes and that fits her, and most importantly, put those glasses back on that her old friends said made her look ugly. she's happy for the first time in years, and eventually, a girl falls in love with her smile and adores how unapologetically passionate she is, and they get together.

#where the makeover is for herself and the love is incidental. where the girl learns she can be happy without existing to be pretty to others #bonus points: she:s actually amab and started out in boy mode‚ but her new friends helped her discover she's a woman #OR he's a guy nd realizes he's a guy. but his girlfriend is bi so it's okay. or she's a lesbian and they part as good friends #existenceunrelateds #writing prompt #??? #idk i just think it's sweet #my mom was watching a documentary on some fast fashion brand that was apparently really popular but id never heard of #and i was like “i could never wear that #im too nerdy and not white girl enough“ and that got me thinking

[heretherebedork]

Oh, so this is how the side couple is gonna go, huh? I see what's being done. We got the I Am Super Manly Dude who goes after girls to cover up for everything and then we have the adorable mom friend with a giant crush.

I'm already doomed. Absolutely doomed. The narrative has doomed me. I adore him already. This boy is my fashion design baby.

#intern in my heart #thai drama #thai series #i adore top so much #he is my absolute baby #i just want to save him from the fast fashion of it all #and give him a good place in a sustainable brand

[novelconcepts]

Honestly, I made that joke about Van’s ancient desktop, but it probably works better than new computers. And it made me think: god, Van must HATE planned obsolescence. Stuff that’s built to die? Stuff that’s built to fall apart in a matter of years just to force you to buy more? For a person whose whole deal is gripping tight to the past, to old technology that still works perfectly fine, to the idea of survival threaded through everything from the stories she tells to the machines she rents out? Yeah, dude. No wonder she hates her cell phone. Not only does it force the illusion of connection without actually granting intimacy, but it’s doomed from the minute you take the thing out of the box. For Van, the very idea has got to be offensive.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #yj meta #van palmer #like you grow up in the 90s in a home that probably doesn’t have a high tax bracket situation #you’re gonna learn to value things for their longevity to begin with #but then you get stranded in the woods with maybe two suitcases you gotta make last for two years? #repurposing and recycling every little thing just to keep warm and alive? #yeah the whole of Van’s adult life is a nostalgia bubble for a host of reasons #but one is almost definitely that the 2021 reality of fast fashion and temporary tech must feel heinous. antithetical to survival. #better to buy old jeans that’ll last 50 years and wear boots passed down from your grandfather #and stock your shelves with machines you know how to fix and tapes you know how to wind back together if they get eaten #Van couldn’t escape the woods in her heart so she just built her entire aesthetic around leaning into the old like it was by choice #right down to living in the ‘attic’ above the place that sustains her existence #I cannot imagine her with a brand new MacBook she knows she’ll have to replace in three years #of course she’s got a desktop from the mid-90s

[toychest321]

Brittany (aka Defa Lucy to non-Latin Americans) doll // Badgley Mischka Spring 2023 Ready-To-Wear Collection

#dolls #fashion parallels #defa lucy #brittany dolls #i would like to make it abundantly clear that while this doll line is available on shein DO NOT FUCKING BUY HER FROM THERE #BUY HER FROM RETAILERS #THIS BLOG DOES NOT FUCKING SUPPORT FAST FASHION BRANDS

[cult-of-artemis-and-athena]

get a fucking life

Stop trying to "re-invent" or "re-brand" yourself. A new aesthetic or "era" will not fix your life. Aesthetics-as-lifestyles is something that seems to have proliferated while people were locked in their houses for 2 years. Not necessarily your fault in all cases. I think I understand where it comes from, but I don't think it's healthy or a helpful way to fulfill the desire and longing for things to make sense.

I'm not saying you can't have aspirations, have role models and inspirations, try new things, have a personal style, or change your personal style.

I'm objecting to the idea that if you curate your life a certain way and gaslight yourself into behaving like a different person, it will fix any of a number of problems that present themselves in your life -- take your pick.

"If I wear certain clothes and eat certain things, I will become An Halthy Gorl (TM)"

"If I wear certain clothes and listen to certain music, I will become An Fartistic Gorl (TM)"

Etc.

Pursuing self-improvement - to become more health-conscious or creative - is not the problem. Pursuing these things in a way inauthentic to your Self is the problem.

Online trends are very neat because they are sometimes grassroots. Sometimes there is, but often there isn't a corporation or a brand behind everything with a motivation to sell you some absolute bullshit. It seems since the trend of "aesthetics" has taken off, however, corporations are jumping on the bandwagon and using influencers to astroturf their products to online trends.

Everyone and their dog, at this point, is onto Shein and their crap, but that's a great example I don't need to over-explain.

With the exceptions of what is astroturfed by a corporation, the origin point of a trend that everyone wants to jump on is often ONE person innovating, taking a risk, and being true to themselves. They may do that thing for years in spite of receiving no clout, being considered a weirdo, or getting shit on for what they're doing.

If you look at why punks wore Doc Martens, leather jackets, or military surplus, or clothes with awkward patches and holes, they all go back to practical reasons. Before punks were punks, lot of them were poor and worked in factories; if they were going to have one nice pair of shoes, it was going to be their work boots, and Doc Martens were the best investment for that purpose at the time.

Leather moto jackets were popular in the 1950s and 60s, after that trend passed, a lot of them ended up in thrift stores in the 70s and 80s. If you're a poor kid trying to look cool, you're going to do the best you can with what you can find in a thrift store.

They had holes in their clothes because they were, again, poor and their clothes were naturally worn-out. Perhaps the rebellion lay in the fact that even poor people did their best to be "presentable" and did not wear worn-out clothing in public if they could help it, but it's not like they were buying pre-ripped jeans from a store for $100.

The people who came after, who made a conscious decision to adopt the punk lifestyle, may have ripped up their pants to still piss off anyone who felt worn-out clothes in public was disrespectful.

Then the media makes movies about punks, and punk music starts getting radio play, and normies get exposed to a romanticized and context-free image of punk that they like, and it's still rebellious enough to piss off their parents. However at this time, there are still "real" punks from the original movement, so one foot is still grounded in reality, so to speak.

Then decades pass and punk has become fully commodified into a cartoon character meme. It's a trope that's been remixed, satirized, and deconstructed by Big Fashion. The bottom tip of the iceberg still exists, but the entry point - from where someone gets into Avril Lavigne or MGK at age 11 and they're shopping at Claire's and Hot Topic (I'm probably showing my age...) - is so far removed. And sometimes, people just fuckin stay there unless it was a phase and they move onto something else.

There's a difference between adopting punk almost accidentally because you went to the skate park and interacted with punks, and starting to skateboard because you just discovered The Ramones and you're checking off the punk checklist: "Put safety pins on my bag, check. Wear a dog collar, check. Next, I gotta get a CBGB shirt and dye my hair purple. I gotta get more piercings, because the more piercings I have the higher that my punk level is."

I'll be the first to admit 13-year old me was the latter one. Now, with 20 years of hindsight, my boomer father was 100% correct to make fun of my pre-ripped jeans and tell me I should buy non-ripped jeans and do chores in them to get rips. In my own defense, however, naturally-ripped jeans often rip in a way that makes them unwearable instead of derelique.

This is not a commentary on how to treat posers, but the poser-like thought process of curating a persona that checks off aesthetic boxes without regard for practicality or individuality. However, it's applied toward being a "clean girl" or "French girl" or "alt girl".

On one hand, "aesthetics" are self-aware in acknowledging their superficiality. On the other, that in itself is a red flag that they're about as attainable and sustainable as the artificial environments and scenarios in media that inspires them.

The only outcome of trying to check all the boxes of a "French girl" aesthetic in Peebles, Ohio is disappointment.

I'm not saying you have to embrace minimalism, but in the wardrobe minimalist community, there is the concept of dressing for your real life instead of your aspirational life.

In a way that men don't, women have a mysterious pressure put upon them to be everything and everyone except who they are. "Unattainable standards" gets thrown around a lot, and it's easy to dismiss as "someone who feels entitled to credit from a result without attaining it" but what's actually being lashed out at is not always the standard itself, but sometimes it's likely the moving of the goalposts once that's reached.

I don't know where this started, and going into the possible historical and cultural genesis of this mindset is out of scope, it's largely an internalization. It's the feminine impulse to disregard twenty people who consistently say positive things or don't care and then hyper-fixate on the one person who made an off-color comment once. How many of those people are in your head?

Perhaps it's true that females, on average, are predisposed to negative emotions and conformity. Perhaps it's true that society systemically conditions girls from a young age to be obedient social chameleons who view themselves in third person. Likely both have something to do with it.

I think women who adopt the persona of being a staunch "man repeller" are just as obsessed with their image and potentially Self-denying as the pick me's who would break their feet in half if someone told them it's what attracts High Value Menz. None of this should be about cultivating approval or revulsion in a social audience.

This issue intersects heavily with consumerism, which is why I invoked the example of early punks. We have to get out of the mindset that we can go on Amazon and, within a few hours, order a brand new personality of new clothes and hobby supplies that will be used for a few months then discarded.

"Just be yourself" is advice that's given lazily, and abused frequently as a cope for not improving, but I believe that's close to the solution. Nietzsche said it better, though: become who you are. This could involve discarding and deconstructing forms of identity that come from destructive and schizophrenia-inducing sources such as mass media, social media, and consumerism and affiliating yourself with timeless identities based in culture, craft, spirituality, the natural world, and immutable personal characteristics and talents.

"Show me the face you had before you were born" -- The Buddha

#feminism #amazon feminism #beauty culture #beauty standards #identity #personal identity #aesthetic #aesthetics #trends #fast fashion #posers #poseurs #personal branding #personas #inauthenticity #authenticity #consumerism #consumer culture #mass media #social media #performative femininity #performative identity

[sharkszone]

"Its impossible to shop 100% ethically" but its possible to fucking try no? Just because you cant guarantee that the brands who claim ethics are 100% honest doesnt justify shopping from brands that actively have reports of monsterous behaviour. There is always an alternative, thrift stores, buy nothing groups, second hand apps, or LEARN TO SEW!!!! It will change your life. But end of the day, you will live without your £4 shein blouse, cute clothes are not a fucking necessity. If you truly put having your ideal wardrobe over someones life, someones family , the planets welbeing... i think your selfish. Like actually fucking selfish. You dont need to buy 3 outfits a month btw, if you dont buy any new clothes for 2 months, just wear what you already own... you can buy a lovely garment from ethical brands that will LAST!!! Also, the argument that shein makes jobs is BULLSHIT!! Because all it does is close the gap in the market for ethical brands to emerge. The fashion industry if constantly growing and evolving, there will be brands and jobs if shein is taken down. Or !!!!! Alternatively, dont shut shein down, billionaire chris xu... pay your fucking workers. BILLIONAIRE chris xu, put some money into not KILLING your workers. Im sure you'll get a lot more clothes out of them when they can afford to eat.

#sorry this isnt aftg #ethical clothing #clothes #clothing #ethics #shein #sheinfashion #fast fashion #cheap clothes #you have blood on your hands if you shop shein or its adjacent brands #this goes for h&m and zara #high street doesnt mean ethical

[xamaxenta]

anon clearly you dont remember the part of the 2000s when we were all wearing bootcut jeans that were an inch and a half too long so the cuffs were always torn and fucking wet and muddy

2000s fashion was very bad not that general fashion has learnt how to cater to women in 2024 (pockets doko? Actual sizing for different body types) but i digress

2000 scene is also classic blunderyears but with character and you could say the same for Y2K today

Personally i think men should wear high heels and skirts more often why did that go out of style tragic event frfr

#APPLE BOTTOM JEANS BOOTS WITH THE FUR #<- always saw these lyrics and went ugh that sounds like an awful combo idk never saw the MV maybe it looked good who knows idk tho #im not including smaller brands who have made it their mission plan to cater to a wider audience #im talking fast fashion #anyway everyone has different visions #im a basement dweller who hasnt owned anything other than tshirts and jeans its not rly something i can have a valid opinion on

[karlachi]

i gotta say as much as i dislike tiktok culture it's nice to see young people sharing diy tutorials for everything like handpainted clothes and customising mirrors and making paper and crochet patterns

#obviously its not always sustainable like. buying from fast fashion brands for cheap clothes to paint #or ordering cheap stuff from amazon #but idk it just makes me happy seeing people sharing ideas on there

[telltaleanatomicalheart]

one of my fave brands called nana studioz had their last last release on the 8th of march. and i’m sad but also immensely enamored by the integrity of the brand. i think there was only three drops in total starting from 2021. my fave thing about this brand was the story behind every piece and collection and the collective aesthetic and universe it created. but also the most popular thing being called ‘second skin top’ and that comfort and it just felt like a universe where little me never had to grow up . i love love love this brand so much and i know that the designer will create new things again and i truly admire their dedication to be themselves and just have integrity and make REAL and functional and lasting art <3. it’s not about the consumerism it’s about the art the history the story the love the affection the caree,,aghh i love it so so much. i never got to buy anything but that’s okay. hopefully i’ll wonder upon the most perfect thrift find ever. :(( .

#i was so upset when i saw a complete knock off on some fast fashion website like nothing will ever be like it #i think the existence of the garment and the brand is about integrity and care and affection and it TRYING to be replicated by a consumeris #machine is just the complete opposite of it’s like manifesto #i heard the last drop sold out in nine minutes so i would’ve been even more upset if i had money and didn’t get it tbh

[scaryorganmusic]

sorry but it's kind of jarring to see the "don't buy fast fashion, they're terrible to their workers and stimulate overconsumption" influencers turn around and go btw i'm in the amazon affiliate program

#and i'm not excusing the fast fashion brands here #but amazon is very known for awful work conditions and overconsumption too #i'm also not saying don't buy from amazon like if that's the one option for u go for it #but being an affiliate and profiting from amazon sales is a little more questionable #but nobody cares bcs it's an american company

[iwilltranscend]

gotta say I'm really tired of the only size inclusive brands being 1) nothing but plain staples 2) expensive as hell or 3) both

#like i appreciate what brands like universal standard are doing i do #i have one of their t-shirts #but theyre SO EXPENSIVE and everything is plaaaaain #like the stuff thats size inclusive amd cheap are all shitty fast fashion! #im just tired of not being able to dress how i want #rip (reeses in pieces)