What are the wider costs of our ever-changing, disposable wardrobes? Between 1990 and 2012, the U.S. textile and garment industry lost more than three-quarters of their labor force.
Workers and the environment suffer as trendy, inexpensive clothes are swiftly mass produced in subcontracted factories and sold in chain stores world-wideEvery day, millions of people buy clothes with nary a thought about the consequences. American shoppers snap up about five times more clothing now than they did in 1980.
In 2018, that averaged 68 garments a year, the online firm Rent the Runway told the New Yorker. As a whole, the world’s citizens acquire some 80 billion apparel items annually. And on average—average—each piece will be worn seven times before getting tossed, according to a 2015 study by the British charity Barnado’s. In China, it’s just three times, says the Chinese fashion-rental platform Y Closet.
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