Why Clothing is WORSE Now | Old VS New

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There is a growing feeling that clothes today SUCK, even expensive brands today have quality issues reported by shoppers and the used market for these vintage pieces of clothing has gone crazy. So why are old clothes better than new clothes?
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[@yurisonovab3892]

An $85 dollar shirt IS expensive. Not because we've been trained to expect clothes to be $20. But because our pay hasn't seen an increase in near 30 years.

[@marcmcphee]

I found a 20 year old t shirt and was amazed how much thicker the material is and how much better made it was. Crap today is embarrassing. 😡

[@auggygobby8233]

A weirdly common practice I've noticed is how men's clothing is often higher quality than women's, their shirts are thicker and usually more cotton than spandex, the plaid shirts thicker and keep you warmer too. Women's clothing but especially shirts are thinner, cheaper, and stretchier than men's and fall apart so much faster even from the same brands!

[@xJuliaGrimesx]

Seamstress here! Just an example of simplified shapes: the whole dropped-shoulder „oversized“ look won‘t go away because sewing together circles of fabric is so much faster than properly setting a sleeve. When you drop the shoulder to mid-arm level, you have less waste and shapes zu sew

[@KnowingBetter]

Ten years ago, I went to walmart and bought like 20 of those plain colored, Fruit of the Loom tshirts for $5 each. I still wear them, they're not falling apart in the least. I feel like I've cracked the code or something, when the truth is I was just really poor back then.

[@-IE_it_yourself]

i always shopped second hand. and im getting worried, because the rich buy literal garbage. and shopping second hand used to be full of nice hand made or at least properly made clothing.

[@herculesrockefeller8969]

"Everything is average nowadays" - Kaiser Chiefs.

[@cuttwice3905]

The yarns in the fabric are not spun as well. It used to be that yarns were spun to last, not fray.

[@nataliaivonica3488]

hi, 23 year old (older gen z) here. this is a topic i am REALLY passionate about and i’m glad you touched on the difficulty of finding your personal style without supporting fast fashion. this is something i’ve struggled with during my teen years. i had very little spending money and even “affordable” popular stores were too pricey for me, so at 15 i joined facebook groups to buy, sell and trade clothes in my hometown. after school, i’d meet strangers at subway stations to either get new clothes or to get a little bit of extra cash. a while later, after getting my first job, i started going to thrift stores that charged the absolute least for clothes. i’d go to church basements and spend hours going through piles of clothes, spending the same i’d spend on burger king on a massive bag of new clothes instead. that’s how i found what i liked and what i didn’t, that’s how i learned how to identify 100% cotton jeans by the touch, that’s how i understood that a polyester shirt is hotter and less comfortable than a cotton one. they were my school and my playground. my grandma used to be a seamstress, so she’d help me adjust pants that i liked, crop shirts and turn excess fabric into scrunchies. now, going into a regular clothing store makes me uncomfortable because everything is on display, begging to be bought. there’s no mystery, it doesn’t feel like digging for gold. and my friends always ask me like “how do you shop sustainability without spending so much money? how do you find weird clothes without supporting fast fashion?” and the reality is that it takes A LOT of work and energy. after a foot injury, i started only buying secondhand stuff online because walking, moving, kneeling and trying on clothes took a lot more effort than i was in position to invest. i still haven’t gotten my thrifting groove back after covid, i’m rusty and everything feels like too much work. it’s a shame that younger people aren’t exposed to that reality, since on social media we’re bombarded with ads that shape our relationship to fashion.

[@Moonstorm98]

Hey guys, lovely video and interesting information

[@dragonmammma]

As a self-labeled old geezer (age 65), I can attest to the fact that clothing ain't what it used to be. I still wear clothing that I've owned for 40 years that is in better shape than clothing I've bought within a decade. Besides shopping garage sales, my best strategy is to snap up old 100% cotton sheets whenever I find them. I have rudimentary sewing skills, but I can still make something of better quality than the vast majority of what can be bought these days.

[@umpoucodetudoealgumacoisa]

The loss of knowledge is something scary. Specially thinking that this is happening in the supposed era of information, with the internet. Very artisanal things like crocheting and knitting might be having a better time surviving because it can be a one person initiative (aside from the making of the materials) but some industry techniques could just be disappearing without us noticing

[@metalema6]

They got to a point where the clothes are cheap enough that taking the time to bring them back to the store is not worth it

[@Xzor]

This is why whenever I find a piece of clothing that I like, it fits well, and the quality is high.... I buy like 10 of them. I rotate them in as they wear out.

[@wensdyy6466]

As someone working in fashion industry (my brother is a fashion designer and me and my mother works in a company that designs and sessl clothes-we specialize in carneval costumes but also gowns for judges but also simple stuff like tshirts, dresses, coats...) a lot of it is that the same fabrics (same type, colour, code, weight...) are of lower and lower quality. Today we had a luxury coat made from scratch in around 6 hours (mesuring a costumer, creating fabric cut, cutting all different pieces of fabric, sewing it together, and than finally checking it, packing it).

[@user-rc2yf8kt7i]

Another youtuber made a similar video a few months ago and I was hoping for more content about this because it is SO REAL. especially women's clothing. you can't even PAY for better quality anymore. brands that had reputations for being high quality are now going the thin, cheap, and trashy route but still charging the premium prices. Just another case of greedflation and shrinkflation... thinner fabric is cheaper for them to use. That's why all the shirts in the store are paper-thin and can be ripped with a thumb on accident! (I was so angry... and i am not even some gym rat who benches 40000 lbs. I'm a tiny girl and annihilated a shirt just by snagging my thumb on it. I don't even have long nails!)

[@Ghostalking]

I’m 30 and never felt so old. Most things have changed for the worse

[@apricebcd]

Shopping for clothing is my least favourite activity of all time. As a larger man, none of the good quality products are available in my size so I’m left basically getting clothing that doesn’t last. I wear it for as long as I possibly can, but I’m still buying six pairs of jeans a year where once upon a time I would buy two. And don’t even get me started on shoes, because as they say, sir has difficult feet.

[@user-vx3ut1fg7n]

Generally in the Philippines, when a casual T-shirt gets old or worn out after many uses (and abuses), it simply becomes a house garment or a wiping rag; sometimes housewives use such old shirts as a fabric for patching up or mending another worn out garment that has the same color and style. Usually, most good quality clothes become affordable in malls or department stores in the days or weeks leading to Christmas, New Year's Day, weekend or end-of-the-month sales.😅

[@Reinturtle]

I only buy second hand these days and it amazes that almost everything I buy looks unworn...The value for me is great, but it is also shocking