Everyone is going to have to start wearing recycled newspapers.
(Of course, on rainy days, everyone will also have to start wearing very large umbrella hats.)
Posted on 04/07/2024 9:23:57 AM PDT by Libloather
These bottoms are getting a bum rap.
Bootcut, low-rise, skinny or straight — jeans reign supreme as a stylish staple in most wardrobes worldwide.
For decades, denim designs have graced the dapper derrière likes of Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
The haute timelessness of the togs notwithstanding, recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions. The environmental wear-and-tear of the pants is equivalent to driving 6.4 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.
“This study took jeans as an example to reveal the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption and its additional climate impacts compared to traditional fashion,” wrote the authors of the new report, set for publishing in May 2024.
“Jeans production and cross-broad transportation contributed 91 % of the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption,” added the experts.
And they’re not just pulling your leg.
To determine the CO2 effects, scientists followed the life cycle of a pair of jeans that were quickly produced, shipped, worn, washed and discarded after about seven uses.
The stages are all part of speedy sequences that most modern clothes follow owing to the increasingly buzzy “fast-fashion” trend. The movement sees retailers such as Shein, Zara, BooHoo and Forever 21 using an excess of resources and energy to crank out cutesy swag at accelerated rates.
It’s a hurried process to answer the growing demand of chronic shopaholics who want the latest and greatest looks at low costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by ‘climate’.
Wearing jeans is bad for Earth, study finds. Also other clothing made from or using parts from fossil fuels has to stop.
Grow your own cotton, raise your own silk worms, plant your own flax. Else you are harming the environment for the Children!!!
Just have everyone wearing Mao jackets.
I had some on last week I’m pretty sure I bought in the early-mid 90’s
I remember when Jimmy Carter was praised because he wore blue jeans.
“worn, washed and discarded after about seven uses. “
has there ever been a pair of jeans discarded after seven uses? I don’t even wash mine after only seven times wearing them.
*** worn, washed and discarded after about seven uses.***
LOL. I pretty much live in jeans. The only ones I’ve let go of are ones that are too big, and those were donated. You can recycle jeans, too. There’s all kinds of stuff you can make from them.
You can recycle jeans, too. There’s all kinds of stuff you can make from them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
In the 19th century, rag-and-bone men typically lived in extreme poverty, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day. Conditions for rag-and-bone men in general improved following the Second World War, but the trade declined during the latter half of the 20th century. However, in more recent years, partly as the result of the soaring price of scrap metal, rag-and-bone-style collection continues, particularly in the developing world.
Maybe a returning profession....................
Who does that?
Yes! Justification to wear “skinny Jeans” and “Daisy Dukes”!
All of the fat-ass women must be CANCELED!
Heh I repaired a pair of $15 jeans 👖 just last fall.
They fit so.... (I’m cheap)
Don’t rely on my sewing skills, LOL 🤣.
BUT strong enough to go through several washes already.
Of course under Joe Biden those jeans 👖👖👖 may cost $18,000 now.
😜
I used double iron-on patches (either side) and over-sewed extensively (had the time, friend gave me a strong needle, I bought jeans 👖 thread for about $2.75 at WalMart and a 25-year-old girl gave me some additional tips)
Oh and I had leftover iron-on jean patches
If I drive 6.4 miles without pants, does that even out?
I wear cotton twill cargo pants instead of jeans.
They can have my jeans when they pry then off of my cold hard. ..
Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum says forget fashion because he’ll have everyone in uniforms by 2025 ,LOL
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