It's Not Just Shein: Why Are ALL Your Clothes Worse Now?
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Published 2024-07-11
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All Comments (21)
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My favorite part of this is that spending more money on something does absolutely nothing to guarantee the quality of a product. Absolute garbage is being sold as high end.
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Even fabric to sew your own clothes is not good anymore. The entire textile industry has just plummeted.
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My biggest complaint is shoes. When I was a teenager, shoes had weight to them! They were made of genuine leather and other durable materials. Now, they are basically made of plastic and styrofoam and sold for more money! And, most of all, they don’t last!
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When I was a little girl, my grandmother, aunts and most of our neighbors worked making clothing in American factories. There was a commercial of a lady singing "look for the union label." I haven't heard that lady singing in decades.
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Can we talk about how thrift stores are charging even more money even though the clothes are worth less?
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I swear to god every video I watch about "why is XYZ product or service so shitty now?" contains a segment about "...and then private equity started buying everything." EVERY SINGLE TIME
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This is so true, the buttons fall off easier, the material is thinner, the hems are uneven, the thread is less durable and much of the hems start to fail after one wash.
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Yes, it's not just clothes, it's many things that have deteriorated in quality and don't last long, like furniture, electronics, children's toys, etc.
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Fast fashion is wild, it's like "we have this material that will take centuries to break down, and with it we've made clothes that you can wear once"
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Almost impossible to find 100% wool, linen, or silk in stores. Everything is plastic! which makes you hotter in the summer since it traps body heat. I hate it
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it's the absolute worst for all of us growing up through this. So much good stuff came out, but we couldn't buy it because we didn't make our own money, and now that I can afford things, I'm barely buying shit because everything feels so cheap and looks so terrible. I swear, the moment I was able to make money, they swapped out all merchandise.
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There's a old saying "If private equity buys your employer, find yourself a new job"
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When private equity gets involved in anything it goes to hell.
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It’s so depressing. Everything feels gross, looks gross, everything feels cheap
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I worked for Norsdstrom back in the ‘80s, and later in the 90’s and early 2000’s I was a business executive so I always had nice clothes like silk blouses and dresses that weren’t tissue thin, wool skirts, wool suits and jackets. Nothing now compares to the quality of that period, I was not even buying high end names. Moderate labels like Jones NY, Liz Claiborne, Talbots, Ann Taylor, etc. You can’t even find a silk blouse or 100% wool gaberdine anything anymore.
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Even socks aren’t made to last anymore. The fabric has gotten thinner; therefore forming holes much faster
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I buy pretty much all of my clothes from thrift stores, and the fast fashion industry is starting to ruin those, too. They're filling up with garbage plastic clothes, it's tragic. Real wool and cotton is getting rarer and rarer. Occasionally an old man dies and a few silk shirts show up, but it's rare.
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I will never forgive the person who first decided it was a good idea to put elastane in jeans. Everytime I need a new pair of jeans, I have to go store to store and dig through jeans like a damn prospector to find that "one" pair of jeans that is 100% cotton.
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I work for an airline and our uniforms have even become garbage. I have to spend my own money on better quality pants and shirts from a specialty shop because the vendor product is so bad.
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This all started decades ago. When I was a child, in the 1960's, people would get one winter coat a year, one pair of boots a year, why? Because clothes were expensive, they were made in the USA by union employees.
