Could you give up fast fashion? Flashcards
Pledge
You can make a pledge to do sth: publicly promise
We’re talking about buying clothes & only wearing them a few times before buying more clothes! This is knowns as fast fashion, it’s popular, it might make us feel good, but it’s not good for the environment. Which is why lots of people are pledging to buy no new clothes.
I am wearing the same shirt, I bought seven years ago. You’re certainly not a fashion victim.
Fast fashion, which is being blamed for contributing to global warming & discarded clothes - ones that are thrown away- are also piling up in landfill sites.
Outsourced
Work usually done in one comapny is given to another company to do, often because that company has the skills to do it.”Chasing the cheapest needle”
What is driving our desire to keep buying more clothes?
Clothes in developed worlds @ least have become cheaper becasue they are produced in developing countries. These are countries which are trying to become more advanced economically & socially.
Production is outsourced.
Undercut
do the same job cheaper.
A company that can undercut another one … .
Fashion victim, discarded clothes, chasin the cheapest needle
Stems from
This expression, means it is caused by/ result of
I think that feeling that you can’t be seen in the same clothes twice, it stems from social media.
Illogical
Wasteful & illogical
Not sensible or reasonable & more driven by emotions rather than any practical reason.
It sounds very wasteful & illogical.
Fast fashion, which is being blamed for contributing to global warming.
Backlash
That’s a strong negative reaction to what is happening.
There is a bit of a backlash now … .
Some people are now promising to buy second hand clothes - vintage clothes-, or make do with clothes they have & mend the ones they need.
It also found that 1.2 billion tons of carbon emission is released by the global fashion industry.
