“Maybe you haven’t even had a chance to wear it out yet, but it doesn’t matter. You should just give it away or throw it in the trash.”

“That New Outfit You Just Bought is Already Out of Style.” says fashionista Carly Benzoles. “Maybe you haven’t even had a chance to wear it out yet, but it doesn’t matter. You should just give it away or throw it in the trash.” Carly continued.

“This dynamic has significant consequences. Secondhand stores receive more clothes than they can manage and landfills are overstuffed with . .

What is being labeled as “Fast Fashion” retailers are no longer creating new lines every season, they are creating new lines every week.

“This dynamic has significant consequences. Secondhand stores receive more clothes than they can manage and landfills are overstuffed with clothing and shoes that don’t break down easily. Consumers run the risk of ending up on a hedonic treadmill in which the continuous pursuit of new stuff leaves them unhappy and unfulfilled.” says Marc Bain of theAtlantic.com

The value of something is only what one is willing to pay for it, and so

With most consumers un-aware of this market trend they may for a moment try and keep up with the fast fashion consumption model. The value of something is only what one is willing to pay for it, and so, one has to ask why products are valuable only until purchased, then immediately worth nothing.

 

Who Cares Thought Right? I Mean Someone Else Will Buy It Anyway?!

For at that point are we even buying a dress, or a shirt? or are we really just buying the marketing? Because the actually shirt is apparently worth near nothing. Yet when its sold in the current market with the marketing its worth $79.

 

One would think that would be acceptable if the people making the shirts got a little of that money.

 

They don’t.