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On Wa$ted, we met some Brooklyn divas who were more interested in fashion than ration. They were paying dearly for their vice and so was the planet.
It seems to be a growing trend for clothing companies to mass produce the "worn-in" look. It is not their fault. They provide what people want and many people want their clothes to be pre-washed, pre-fit, pre-shrunk, pre-faded, etc. Many new jeans and other threads even come with carefully plotted holes and rips. I am surprised that they don?t include broken zippers and missing buttons.
Purchasing used clothes from thrift stores or Goodwill not only helps the planet, but it helps you to pay as little as one-tenth the cost of buying new "used" clothes. And those used threads are pre-washed, pre-fit, pre-shrunk, pre-faded, and if you are lucky, come with holes and rips and other battle scars.
All the newest fashions in a department store will one day make its way to the second-hand racks. And by then, you know that the fit and durability has been time-tested.
This post was inspired by the show Wa$ted.
