Let's Talk About Fashion Sustainability (Ep. 45)

There are a lot of important conversations happening around sustainability in the fashion sector, but one that isn’t had often enough is about the people involved in making our clothes.
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[@lynylyn316]

Listen. If I didn’t love your channel before, I LOVE it now! I’m a maker of clothing and accessories. I’ve worked in the costume jewelry industry as well. The waste of things, unconscious use of toxic materials, and items designed to fall to dust in a year or two doesn’t come close to how poorly people are treated. It’s reprehensible and truly a form of slavery. Some of the people you’re referencing are children and most are women and girls. Teaching people to repair their clothing is a beautiful contribution. Buying less and buying better quality is an unbeatable mode of consuming garments and accessories. I grew up and learned to sew watching my mom sew in my great grandmother’s dry cleaners. There was care and respect given to well loved garments and I carry that respect til this moment. Shein, temu et al also steal the ideas of hard working designers and render with cheap fabric. I hope folks learn more about the discarded garment pollution in the global south that is ruining quality of life for so many. We can all do better. 💖

[@anna99629]

Great content. We need more conversations on this topic if we want to change.

[@amandajuhlin683]

Thank you for making this video! I've known about the low wages for garment workers for a little while, but it really hit home for me when I realized that this affects us in America as well. The low prices of clothes teach us that time and labor is not valuable. Anyone who has tried to sell handmade items or provide a service like tailoring knows how hard it is to convince their customers that their time is worth a living wage! As a tailor, I cannot tell you how many times I have heard a customer complain about the price of alterations saying, "that cost more than my garment!" That's because I'm charging enough money to allow me to pay rent at the end of the month where the people who made the clothes weren't able to do that. I would love to see the day when Bangladeshi garment workers earn higher wages because we recognize the value of their time (and similarly, their LIVES).

[@hafsafossie7074]

Thank you shea all your videos are great to watch❤❤

[@kikisouder]

I could not like this enough! I regret not finding you sooner, but it probably happened exactly when it was supposed to happen. 😊

[@brigitcosgrove4894]

Thankyou for talking about this deeply important issue. The leggings I just mended a hole in using your instructions were made in Bangladesh. I have visited Bangladesh and the slums are absolutely appalling. Health care of a baby consists of an earring to ward off evil spirits because that's all they can afford. I am not sure that paying workers a living wage would necessarily help the environmental issues fall into place, but I agree that it's an equally important issue, and does have links with sustainability. Right, now to see what else your channel will help me mend. You'd never know that some of my great grandparents were tailors.