The fashion industry believes in change in trends. What is in fashion today will be gone tomorrow. And those who follow fashions will go for new clothes, stacking the old clothes in cupboards not to be seen or worn until they come back in fashion. Then there is yet another issue. Clothes do not tear. With the kind of materials available today there is no wear and tear.
You must have heard of that song that has a line “Old Soldiers never die. They just fade away” I could say that about clothes. What do you think? . Do old clothes die? I do not think so. I have clothes generations old. They are intact. The good news is that they come back into fashion but the bad news is that I have no place to keep those old clothes.
And there again the bad news is I cannot give them to anyone. These days no one likes hand me downs. The situation around is such that all are well to do They will not even sniff leave alone wear them. I cannot even give them to my maids. The main reason is I would not like to see them in my clothes and the other reason being they do not wear my type of clothes.
In the good old days every effort used to be made to make clothes last as long as they could. They used to be darned or the skirts lengthened to take care of the sudden growth that mothers noticed in their daughters. The adage ‘Stitch in time saves nine’ was fully in use. These days I do not think anyone repairs anything not that they tear ever.
Whoever invented materials that never tear are in great trouble indeed.
There is a ray of hope however, for those who love to stitch. They could work on their old clothes and remodel them and start a trend of their own. May be they coyuld be dyed changing their colour.
Fashion designers perhaps would take tips and make them trendy.
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I think giving the clothes which we do not use to some others is not good. When they are not suitable and good how is it reasonable to expect others wear those clothes? They too have desires to wear new clothes. So, generally, I do not give them to anybody. At the most, I give them after using for about 9 or 10 washes. If my conscious does not permit I tear them off into small pieces and use them for cleaning the floor . I also advise my children to follow the same principle. Am I correct guys?
Years ago, as children, every year we took clothes we no longer wore and gave them to the poor. This continued into adulthood. Then, there was the reaction that you have expressed, where people who needed clothing acted as if they deserved brand new designer things. That led my best friend to burn her clothing, and me to put them in a bag and sit them in the garbage.
As I have already said there is no demand for old clothes. But if someone wants them I would happily give them away
Giving away good old clothes to those who can wear them is never considered to be insulting them. How many rags do you need to swab the floor. Also synthetic material is not good for swabbing. It is not absorbant
Yes, old men and women and clothes never die but fade away their colors just to take place the new clothes. There are shirts here and shorts and winter coats and summer dresses and kiddie underpants in piles so high they would cast a shadow over Shaquille O'Neal.
There are bales the size of small sedans filled with leather coats and polyester stretch pants. There are open-topped plastic barrels overflowing with red flannel work shirts, faded denims, evening gowns in rainbow sequins. Strewn, tossed, toppling, pancaked, inside out, jammed onto forklifts -- everywhere you look there are clothes.
The warehouse in question is in an industrial park in East New York, Brooklyn. This is not a neighborhood that equates in most people's minds with the words ''major fashion center.'' In some ways this place would seem to be the last destination.
It is where many clothes apparently go to die. When you've finally cleaned the closet, given to the coat drive, made a deposit at Goodwill, the Salvation Army or those big red St. Vincent de Paul Society Dumpsters parked outside suburban supermarkets, your clothes will very likely wind up here.
But, far from ending their useful time on earth, they are destined for resurrection. Someday in Burkina Faso, someone will be wearing those old Liz Claibornes to which you finally gave the heave-ho.
The fashion industry only changes trends so they can make money but they never really do too many things that are new and different. My later mother used to say clothes never went out of the style. They just recycled the garments under a new name. My late aunt used to take good care of your clothes, keep them for years and don't worry you'll reflect the fashion trend … again! :) When I was in high school my friend came to school wearing a really nice dress. I complimented her on it and she said: “Thanks. This is one of my mom's old dresses I found in her closet.” I could never borrow my mother's clothes or my sister's. We were never the same size. :)
Fashions do come back and I have taken advantage of that. The only issue is storage. :smile:
When fashions change old clothes get stacked away never to be worn again unless get back into fashion. In my case some have come back and I am waring them but space constraint is always there.