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jessiesjaded · 1 year ago

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one of the funniest things about how much fast fashion has infiltrated /everywhere/ so thoroughly the past decade is the fact that when I went looking for christmas presents I was seeing exactly the same patterns of fabrics used for different outfits in totally unrelated shops- like when I was a kid it'd be unthinkable to see the exact same fabric being sold as a dress in a name brand surf shop and then seeing it as pants in sports girl and then seeing it as a jumpsuit in the expensive hippie shop- these are all completely separate shops, they aren't like sister stores or something, they even have varying price points and yet that exact same print of fabric is in all of them? this never used to happen. if something was sold in a surf shop, it was only in that surf shop. if something was sold in Ghanda, it was only sold in ghanda. Now though? idk, kinda seems like they all order from the same giant offshore manufacturers....

#like i got a pair of 40 dollar jeans half price from alley girl last yr #now any australians will know alley is pretty much this decades version of ice #its pretty cheap its clearly aimed at younger girls #the crazy thing is i saw the same material being sold in ghanda as very expensive skirt #and when i say same material i dont mean like oh the cheap shop knocked off the expensive one #no it was identical #so why is one selling stuff for pretty cheap and the other selling it for 89 bucks or whatever... if they presumably come from same place #thats why so many of the convos about fast fashion dont work #bc even the expensive places are doing this shit like how can i judge gettin a better price from shein if theyre selling the same shit #as the so called 'legitimate' retailers #its almost inescapable

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