Discussions about the fashion industry thread

[clee1982]

I thought the international store used to do over 138 is free shipping, so not too hard to hit

 

[Epaulet]

Hopefully at a valuation one would expect from the king of Blands

KING OF BLANDS!

 

[cb200]

A Look at the Movements Making the Fashion Industry Cleaner, Kinder, and Safer

Fashion has gotten a bad rap lately — disastrous environmental impacts and unfair labor practices abound. But change is on the way.

www.instyle.com

DHS Cracks Down on Goods Produced by China’s State-Sponsored Forced Labor

Securing America's Borders

www.cbp.gov

This is interesting.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Kamakura shirts closing its US operations

It's doing great in Japan (or was in March when I was last there). I think a lot of this has to do with the changing formality of the US workplace. Sure, Ivy / retro enthusiasts may like the collar roll, but that's not Kamkura's main market, which is simply shirts for work. And while the average Japanese salariman still does (even with 'coolbiz' etc.). Americans don't wear those kinds of shirts for work so much any more.

 

[Mariokartfever]

It's doing great in Japan (or was in March when I was last there). I think a lot of this has to do with the changing formality of the US workplace. Sure, Ivy / retro enthusiasts may like the collar roll, but that's not Kamkura's main market, which is simply shirts for work. And while the average Japanese salariman still does (even with 'coolbiz' etc.). Americans don't wear those kinds of shirts for work so much any more.

They will soon. The age of the suit shall return.

All DTC casual-wear brands will be purged in a great and righteous fire.

I have dreamt it.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

They will soon. The age of the suit shall return.

All DTC casual-wear brands will be purged in a great and righteous fire.

I have dreamt it.

 

[cb200]

Why Everything Is Sold Out

The pandemic broke online shopping.

www.theatlantic.com

Not specific to apparel but interesting read.

 

[kongmw]

Commentary from Nature:

Fleece garments are cosy — but pollute land as well as water

Many plastic microfibres filtered out of waste water end up in landfills and at other terrestrial sites.

www.nature.com

total mass of microfibres introduced to the environment between 1950 and 2016 to be 4.3 million to 7 million tonnes. ... nearly half of that mass ended up in lakes, rivers and oceans, mostly by way of untreated waste water.

Primary source:

Synthetic microfiber emissions to land rival those to waterbodies and are growing

Synthetic microfibers are found virtually everywhere in the environment, but emission pathways and quantities are poorly understood. By connecting regionalized global datasets on apparel production, use, and washing with emission and retention rates during washing, wastewater treatment, and...

journals.plos.org

 

[cb200]

Looking at just that EG fleece waiting for fall to turn as the culprit is only part of the story when looking at micro-fibers. It's an issue but the whole picture is scary.

Car tyres are major source of ocean microplastics – study

Wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers, say scientists

www.theguardian.com

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic - Scientific Reports

Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterise and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone formed in subtropical waters between California and Hawaii: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Our model...

www.nature.com

 

[smittycl]

Yeah, we discussed those topics at length in their thread a while back I believe.

 

[dieworkwear]

Tangentially related to the fashion industry, but related.

 

[clee1982]

well, 2021 Q3 means I should stop my COVID shoe buying well ahead of that...

 

[cb200]

Fall 2021 for things to be in some sort of new normal? Apparently according to astrology (hey, it seems about as accurate as anything at this point) there's not going to be any new unknown-unknowns appearing this year at our doorsteps. So far this year's been a bit chaotic so not really trusting much.

 

[SimonC]

Fall 2021 for things to be in some sort of new normal?

Nobody knows. But nobody wants to admit to not knowing either. For a comparable situation, try looking back at the wartime predictions of when WW2 would end...

 

[smittycl]

Nobody knows. But nobody wants to admit to not knowing either. For a comparable situation, try looking back at the wartime predictions of when WW2 would end...

There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic

The collective sense of closure we’re all longing for may never arrive. Instead, brace for a slow fade into a new normal.

www.theatlantic.com