Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
by mthoms on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:26AM
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You're asserting that architecture changes faster than fashion? I'm not even sure how to rebuff that since it's so patently ridiculous on its face.
As for food trends, they are indeed changing faster than ever but they're more on a 3-5 year cycle at most. Certainly not 6 months.
Let's examine the word arbitrary. The "in" colors, styles and cuts (the entire make-up of clothing) are undeniably arbitrary and change every 6 months. There's nothing remotely comparable in food or architecture.
Based on your other comment, you seem to take great offence at fashion being disparaged here. It's okay to like fashion. It's the industry that's being attacked, not you personally. And yes, other industries are bad, some even more so. But that's irrelevant.
Still-functional products being discarded on a whim is basically the history of architecture.
The fact is, all of human culture is “arbitrary” and bad for the environment. Food, architecture, fashion, and civilization itself. Just because you don’t care about clothing specifically, doesn’t make it somehow worse than everything else we do.
The only thing that is good for the environment is becoming a nomadic hunter-gatherer and living off the land.