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It's the production of clothing that is responsive to current trends rather than being designed to be inconspicuous for years. The class you belong to is "unwi
by dsr_ 4y ago
It's the production of clothing that is responsive to current trends rather than being designed to be inconspicuous for years.
The class you belong to is "unwilling to google a strange term which is also defined in the article".
- alkonaut 4y agoBut the article defines it but doesn’t explain it I think. What sort of trend changes in days or weeks? Any clothes chain is responsive to trends but those trends like skinny/baggy jeans take a season to change at least. Is a concrete example that you’d push a hat found in a viral video to production? Then I get it
- dsr_ 4y agoThe idea is that the retailer discovers that the hat is sold out, so they order ten thousand more hats, and they arrive in six weeks at a cost of $2.10 each. Then they sell six thousand hats at $15 each, and the fad is over, so they keep a thousand hats in inventory just in case and throw the remaining three thousand in a landfill. Half of the sold hats get worn for three months, but then teenagers will point and laugh if you still wear that hat, so there are now two thousand hats donated to thrift shops and four thousand more in the trash. It's fashion, it arrives fast and it gets turned into trash fast.