Do you buy based on price or need?
Fast fashion refers to an unsustainable apparel-making method that produces inexpensive clothing rapidly in response to the latest style trends.
It’s destroying our environment!
Check out this short video on How To Reduce Your Fast Fashion Imprint then read on for Getting It Togethers Top 5 Tips
Tip1. Buy less clothing. How many pairs of black pants does a gal need? How many five-dollar T-shirts does a kid need? Buy what you need not what you want.
Tip 2. By higher quality clothes that will last longer. If you’re creative you could always make some things.
Tip 3. Invest in timeless, core wardrobe pieces that you can build around.
Tip 4. Take the time to research what you are buying, where it’s made and by whom. Companies like forever 21, Walmart, and Joe fresh support slave labour in places like Bangladesh where the worker is only making $68 a month. This is not even a living wage in their country. 
Do the math:
$5.00 t-shirt, = 50% goes to the retailer
25% goes to the brand
25% goes to the overhead, manufacturing and then labour
Tip 5. Wash your clothes less often and stay clear of clothes that need to be dry cleaned if it all possible. Washing clothes takes years off it’s life.
Together we can make a difference if we at least all try to do our best to stay away from as much fast fashion as we possibly can.
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Hi Rowena,
When shopping for clothing, I find it helps to consider the “cost per wear”.
That cheaply made $5 T-shirt for example, if you only get 5 wears out of it, costs you $1 every time you put it on. And then you toss into the landfill because it deforms in the laundry. Now you need to waste more time and fuel to shop for a replacement.
A well-made classic $30 T-shirt you bought on sale for $20 (cause why pay full price for anything?) that you wear 2 times a month for 2 years, costs only 40 cents a wear. So after 5 wears, it has only cost you $2 compared to that cheap looking $5 T-shirt. And the well-made one is still in great shape to keep wearing, or donate!
Hello Deb,
I love the way you think. Sadly we need to get more people thinking like us. How can we do that?
Rowena
One thing that destroys your clothes more than anything is using a dryer. I almost always (except when the weather is bad) hang my clothes outside to dry. I’m still using towels that I’ve had for over 20 years because they’ve never been in a dryer.
Thanks for all your tips.
Hi Ilene,
I agree, the dryer can destroy your clothes. I grew up without a dryer. Imagine!! My jeans took days to dry down in the basement and were never tight. lol The look back then.
Rowena