Reminds me of Columbo’s raincoat. I guess I just don’t get it
Their "eco Nazi insignia will look outstanding on their oversized labels
Fabulous! (Snicker, Snicker!)
Posted on 12/10/2018 11:54:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“Most women”-maybe-but not this woman-my jeans and flannel shirts for work/everyday come from the online cheap clothing places-$8 to $15 per item-same for skirts/dresses and sweaters to wear out to dinner. I do spend more on boots-both for work and nicer wear, but I would never spend my hard-earned money on “designer” brands even if I had the money to spend-country people aren’t impressed by that crap anyway...
Centuries ago, humans left trifles and sacrifices - even sacrificing other humans - to appease various dieities and receive favorable weather for their crops.
Things haven’t changed much.
Wise to spend extra on good footwear. I do - it makes my wife wince occasionally - but cheap shoes hurt my feet. Name brand? I guess so, but it’s not vanity, it’s practicality.
I plan on using my feet for a long time and they need to last!
Do designer brands depend on liberal buyers in their business?
I stuck with my London Fog
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DH & I each bought a London Fog (mine is a cold weather jacket; his is more iconic) for $9/ea at our favorite thrift store.
We both have many designer ready to wear pieces bought for anywhere from $1.90 to $25 (thrift vs. consignment). In favor of the labels, they usually are very well made of excellent materials and last nearly forever.
...artisan clothing, hand made and one of a kind. Should get my own label
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Serious: (I did this with hand woven fabric for twelve years)It’s a viable market. Upcycling is HOT. Design a limited, wearable line of items everyone *must have* and make them memorable and gorgeous enough for the high end juried craft shows. It takes time and capital for a marketing budget, but the clientele (include the *real life* sizes (16-20) is out there, especially if you can do custom.
Confession: I designed, wove and manufactured, but I’m a jeans and sweatshirt gal, myself. I specialized in tops I could wear with my jeans.
Limited production is easier & more profitable than only one-offs.
I spend the most on my work boots-I wear them every day, all year so I buy the ones with steel toes-like Northland, Brazos, etc. My other boots are not as expensive, but I don’t wear them to work, either. I do buy cheap summer sandals for going out.
Silly me. For a moment I thought they were uniting against the false dichotomy of the climate change ruse.
So, no wonder the are burning their products in landfills.
“...our clothes pollute the ocean with microfibers equating to approximately 50 million plastic bottles each year.”
OMG! I never considered microfibers. We’re friggin’ done for now.
If they really want to do something, they have to try to warm up the sun! Just say NO to the Grand Solar Minimum!
Read that Shackelton furnished Burberry stuff to the crew.
Some said they planned to not wear them and sell them when
they soon returned to England.Best laid plans and all that.
My daddy fought along side Brits in ww2 and said all the
ones he met were atheists.
Just lost a Burberry customer ...
Look ma! A jug-eared soyboy!
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
the REAL solution is to eliminate “fashion” clothing and issue everyone an indestructible Mao Suit every 20 years or so ... then we wouldn’t be sending garbage trucks full of discarded clothes to landfills every second ... but somehow i don’t think these “fashion” outfits want an ACTUAL solution ... they just want to virtue signal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_suit
“Reminds me of Columbo’s raincoat. I guess I just don’t get it.”
I think the idea must be that clothing must be ugly to be environmentally sound ... sort of like Priuses and Brussel Sprouts ...
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