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I’m kinda confused by a lot of what this blog says. Fast living is pretty straight forward. Jet setting is fast living, going out to eat is fast living, owning

I’m kinda confused by a lot of what this blog says. Fast living is pretty straight forward. Jet setting is fast living, going out to eat is fast living, owning multiple vehicles or homes, replacing perfectly good things with the latest model and most forms of conspicuous consumption are fast living. > Today it's quite hard to even find clothes that can be fixed. Polyester and stretch materials aren't really meant to be patched. This is just flat out not true, sorry, but if you are saying that your heart isn’t in it. Clothes were never really “made” to be mended, at least not in recent times, people did it because they had more important thing to spend money on. I mend my clothes frequently. Often with stretch fabrics you can just stitch a hole shut, no patch needed. Can they not find blue jeans? those mend well. I won’t speak to the winter coat because wearing one daily is outside my wheelhouse. I pay a lot of attention to the specific fabrics that I buy and avoid any garment that doesn’t seem to be made from something durable, I’m hard on clothes and the only thing I find myself replacing frequently is teeshirts because they tend to attract holes around my hips and its _really_ noticeable when you mend them. Sure, mended clothes don't look like new, but I personally don’t care much at all(I think so much of society's fixation on clothing is insane/immoral(discriminatory), don’t get me started on suits). The thing is, mending clothes takes time, and the result isn’t usually as nice as just replacing it, which is much easier to do. Ultimately this line of thinking about climate change is untenable. Society isn’t going back.

dendrite9 4y ago
For winter clothing part of the issue may be laminated, glued or otherwise bonded clothing and the tapes used to help seal the seams. I have seen multiple friends with jackets where the seam seal tape fails and they suddenly allow lots of water inside. I try to mend pants but I have evidently strange shaped legs because I wear the crotch out consistently. Some pants have fabric that doesn't stand up well to attempts to patch it. And I know from girlfriends who buy more clothing that some of the cheaper clothes just break down faster. They aren't built to be durable. Some higher end baselayers for winter are also not very durable, the priorities seem to be performance and weight, not durability or the ability to be repaired.

dendrite9 4y ago

For winter clothing part of the issue may be laminated, glued or otherwise bonded clothing and the tapes used to help seal the seams. I have seen multiple friends with jackets where the seam seal tape fails and they suddenly allow lots of water inside. I try to mend pants but I have evidently strange shaped legs because I wear the crotch out consistently. Some pants have fabric that doesn't stand up well to attempts to patch it. And I know from girlfriends who buy more clothing that some of the cheaper clothes just break down faster. They aren't built to be durable. Some higher end baselayers for winter are also not very durable, the priorities seem to be performance and weight, not durability or the ability to be repaired.