{"id":111589,"date":"2024-07-14T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/why-does-clothing-quality-suck-now\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T20:22:24","slug":"why-does-clothing-quality-suck-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/why-does-clothing-quality-suck-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does clothing quality suck now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1720987200%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262137681%26%26%26youtube%26jCwbU41Icfw%3A078ff7cf1c002cd632ed93221abb7fd0bea24c4a&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=jCwbU41Icfw&amp;moduleid=2137681&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2137681\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Before Zara came around, most retailers had a few clothing collections per year (spring\/summer and winter\/fall). This meant things were carefully planned and designed over a period of at least nine months with quality fabrics and embellishments to garments kept in mind.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Zara threw that out the window with their concept being: a new collection every 15 days, mostly by plaigiarising from high end fashion runway shows.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>After the 2008 recession, other retailers started following suit, cutting out quality for quantity. Namely the\u00a0Forever 21 boom during that time.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Most retailers are now owned by Venture Capital firms whose main aim is to squeeze out as much profit as possible. Meaning more clothes for lower quality.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Unless you are buying high end designer, every clothing retailer is now fast fashion\/ probably 100% polyester.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>You can now see piles of clothing waste\u00a0from Space.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>RIP quality clothing of the 80s and 90s. Because Shein has a\u00a064 billion IPO valuation on the London Stock Exchange, meaning fast fashion is most likely here to stay.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>ONTD what is your current experience trying to find quality-made clothing? What&#8217;s your oldest piece of clothing you still wear? Mine are these two red cotton v-neck sweatshirts (jumpers in Australian English) that used to be my brother&#8217;s that he wore to school. They still have his name and class sharpied on them, lol. They were bought in 1995. A little faded but still going strong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCwbU41Icfw?si=ZMeQQV1QtyHNpYVb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128797983.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Zara came around, most retailers had a few clothing collections per year (spring\/summer and winter\/fall). This meant things were carefully planned and designed over a period of at least nine months with quality fabrics and embellishments to garments kept in mind. Zara threw that out the window with their concept being: a new collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}