"I Got This Shirt For Only $_!!"

"I got this shirt for only $_!!"

Unless it is thrifted, that should not be a flex. Stop bragging about buying something from a sweatshop. It shouldn't be a trend to support companies that use slave labour.

I know the fast fashion industry is the only option for some people sometimes, but buying big hauls of fast fashion clothes and bragging to your friends about how cheap you got something for isn't a good thing. Yeah, that dress was dirt cheap. Because you paid for it with the rights and working conditions of the people who made it.

No company should be exploiting their employees. But why do we focus more on cheap companies like Shein and H&M than luxury brands like Dior and Gucci. These are brands that can afford to pay their employees, and whose consumers can afford to shop sustainably.

Every year I say the same thing.

Make this the year that you stop buying new clothes.

You do not need new clothes.

There is more than enough clothing on the planet - estimated 30% of fast fashion remains unsold.

Mountains of clothes are dumped in the Atacama desert.

Retailers are not paying or treating their (80% female) workers fairly.

Buy second hand only

Buy only to replace items that are broken and irreparable

Swap clothes with your friends

Fix things you already have

Use eBay, Etsy, vinted, depop, there are so many online options for secondhand shopping

Just try it. What the worst that can happen?

Good On You

Why Do Some Fashion Burn Unsold Clothes?- Good On You

Every season about 30% of the clothes produced are never sold. We explore the reasons behind why fashion brands burn unsold clothes.

BBC News

The fast fashion graveyard in a desert

Tens of thousands of tonnes of unwanted clothing from Europe and the US are being dumped in the Atacama Desert every year.

BBC News

Fashion brands 'paid factories less than cost' - BBC News

High street retailers paid suppliers in Bangladesh less than production costs, researchers claim.

Clean Clothes Campaign

Gender: Women workers mistreated

Women can be made to dance like puppets, but men cannot be abused in the same way. The owners do not care if we ask for something, but deman

This is definitely going to kill someone. There is literally no doubt. Temu makes the shittiest products in existence, someone is going to get pinned to this and either die from compression fractures, or from being pinned for so long that they die of dehydration.

I hate ads to begin with but this is fucking dangerous and tumblr is culpable for supporting it. Fuck you tumblr. Fuck you and your lack of screening process for ads.

i hate rich people on tiktok shut up shut up shuit up shut up shut up stop stop stop this isnt sustainable at all oh my god why

For those who are wondering this is the unedited version

Fixed a wasp meme :)