Fashion

vintage Pendleton, impossible to get any better. loads available in every size colour and price

echoing @nick_h. that buying new clothes is a waste of money and enviromental resources, as well as an incredibly boring way to show you are a lover of consumerism

lol, don't be ridiculous. There is balance in everything.

I do agree on vintage Pendleton though. Don't buy new Pendleton. Not even made in the U.S. anymore but still priced like they are.

I tend to buy something once, decent quality and it lasts forever. I have shoes, coats and a few UHFs that are twenty years old. Jeans that are 15 years old. My entire wardrobe would fit in a single suitcase. Maybe a reflection on my lack of evolving fashion taste! If I flog something on eBay I’ll generally pick up something new to me, that also is of decent quality. Brand logos especially those that make you look like a walking advertisement, fashion trainers and poor quality materials in clothes are a no go for me. Perhaps I am a cunt. ;-)

I am still wearing wool jumpers I had as a teenager, Maharishi trousers shorts and shirts I bought 25 years ago, Prada sport jacket of similar vintage and decent leather shoes I have had all my adult life. So my experience is buy nice things and wear them until they are too frayed/discoloured or take up the stench of doom. A couple of my Pendleton shirts were bought second hand, my Filson tin cloth jacket likewise.

Well done on being a judgmental prick.

The thread is called fashion…suddenly everyone is outing themselves as not being at all interested in fashion but only owning a few “essentials” made from durable Angel tears that last for infinity

Unless you're a very rare size, there's no need to buy any new clothing except perhaps socks and underwear if you're a bit squeamish.

The old excuse about 'buying quality and using it for ages' simply doesn't stand up, because there is a massive surplus of high quality clothing available second hand. Plenty of it's unworn.

If I'm being judgmental, I'll say that there's not nearly enough in this thread about buying used, and that many of the posters here put their status before climate damage and the deaths of millions in the southern hemisphere because of crop failure and drought/dirty water.

Clothing manufacture uses huge quantities of water. Why buy a new £500 jacket when you could get something similar for £100 on ebay and save lives by funding the digging of wells in Africa?

We should all bear in mind that 3 bn people on our planet use less energy per annum than a typical American refrigerator. Every day we should do things to reduce our consumption and emissions. It's a bit jaw-dropping that a site which is ostensibly about one of the solutions to transport emissions is also hosting excessive consumerism.

Have you gone on the parenting thread berating anyone who has chosen to breed?

You seem to be a huge fan of motorcycles, have you considered their environmental impact (manufacture and then emission of co2 and other toxins)?

I don't want to work out the mpg of my K1100. Wouldn't be surprised if it's as bad as my 3.5 litre van.

Go throw soup at a painting.

lol

to be fair he's not wrong

“The old excuse about 'buying quality and using it for ages' simply doesn't stand up, because there is a massive surplus of high quality clothing available second hand. Plenty of it's unworn.

If I'm being judgmental, I'll say that there's not nearly enough in this thread about buying used, and that many of the posters here put their status before climate damage and the deaths of millions in the southern hemisphere because of crop failure and drought/dirty water.”

The fact that there is plenty of high quality clothing available second hand is a good thing, however this isn’t going to be the case forever as fast fashion means stuff gets thrown out rather than sold/gifted/reuse. would rather it gets bought and worn than binned.

I like well made clothing but aim to get years of use out of items, own about 8 pairs of UK made goodyear welted shoes some of my Trickers are now 10 years old and about to be resoled, would rather spend the money doing this than buying something that’s binned after a year.

most high quality stuff lasts, think you will be better off in the house deposit sized v8 petrol head thread as i would imagine most posting here spend wisely and not in high st fast fashion emporiums every weekend to buy and wear something a few times before throwing it away.

I don’t see it as ‘fashion’ more style. fashion suggests having to follow yearly trends slavishly. too old for that shit but not too old to care about what i wear.

We do what we can, I'm celebrating the end of humanity.

I'm confident my footprint is very small. I try to be realistic about it. Fashion is one of the areas where it's easiest to reduce it. It's an easy win. To give a serious reply to your sarcasm, which may have been provoked by your guilt or shame, I don't oppose all breeding, for obvious reasons. But I do oppose excessive consumption of resources, including money. (Which is why I had to leave the watch thread - too many angry Rolex fans.) I'm surprised by your attitude. You can't deny that buying new clothes is terrible, unless you're a climate change denier, or an oblivious shopaholic, desperate for the next luxury label fix.

I do agree with your sentiment of 'used clothes are perfectly okay to buy'. But no, I don't think buying new clothes is 'terrible'. Not even remotely. This thread is full of people who buy well made stuff that lasts for years. We aren't buying Gucci jumpers that go out of season or that fall apart because they're made of such delicate materials.

In the last year, I have purchased three new pieces of casual clothing. They were made in New York with fabric that was milled in the U.S., with cotton that was grown in the U.S. The footprint of that is far, far, far smaller than something that was made overseas with cotton that was shipped from one country to another, to be milled into cloth, which was then shipped to another country to be made into a garment, for it to then be shipped to the U.S. to be sold.

This thread has nothing to do with being a shopaholic or designer labels. Why should I have to be restricted to buying other people's hand me downs when there are people out there riding motorbikes (awful) and driving vans when they are a far worse pollutant than my small batch clothing purchases? Or when there are megacorps who are contributing 70% of the planets' greenhouse emissions? Or when there are people who DO buy fast fashion constantly? Or when there are people who use plastic water bottles and throw them in the trash instead of recycling?
I pick trash up on hiking trails and take it off the mountain to dispose of it because other people are too lazy to do so. I use 50% of the electricity as those in my neighbourhood (my city council tells me so). I'm not going to feel bad about buying new clothes that I like three times a year - especially when I also buy used clothes.

I think this type of behaviour works well - I’ve taken to going decent stretches of time without buying stuff so that it narrows my mind on what I really want. Then I’ll go out and get a few bits. Which seems to usually default to going to the same clutch of shops - Drakes, Anglo Italian, Clutch cafe, Noah and MHL

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He has the right idea :
Issey Miyake winter 22

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/apr/20/fashion-lessons-good-life-tv-dungarees-decadence

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Why should I

You've just illustrated why we're screwed. You could be better but you won't, because because because. Why shouldn't you have a Range Rover when someone is burning trees in brazil?

Ah yes, the old extract a single sentence which misconstrues the entire comment.

Mate. You own fake Rolex's that actively support and contribute to slave labour practices. Get off your high horse.

Logic fail. You are the enemy. And stupid with it.

Yeah I'm trying to get on that. Looking at buying soming really worth it.

None of us think our shit stinks. All of us think paper straws are rubbish.

Second hand handbags only plz everyone

And you with your van and motorbikes are our saving angel!

We all have an environmental impact, but @JB isn’t wading into the motorbike thread calling everyone cunts.

The Reverend Korda said it all

https://youtu.be/Ft_N-skpXRs