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eartheld:
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i honestly cannot wrap my head around the fact people buy a single article of clothing for four figures. honestly even over like, two hundred dollars. like what the fuck. like, a car payment but a shirt. twenty houses worth of rent for one dress. a years worth of groceries for a like a hundred families for a necklace. i’m speechless what the heck
like i love the TREAT YO SELF sentiment. luv feeling good. splurging on ya self. indulging ya materialism. i get it n support it
but like, kyle jenners shoe closet is literally like, college tuition for an entire graduating class. oscar outfits are the equivalent of time and resources and energy and publicity that could deadass build towns! what the HECK!! can you believe this is real ugh
It’s at least in part because our notion of how much clothing should cost is severely distorted by the fact that basically all clothing for sale in the Western world is made in sweatshops by exploited or enslaved workers.
Like, I get your point about extravagant luxury– I for one don’t get how there can be cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars– but this post so incredibly specifically is about clothing?
Clothing is heavily devalued. Your $10 t-shirt was made by slaves. That’s why.
If you knew how much labor went into spinning, weaving, and sewing, even with machines, and then imagined those laborers being paid a craftsman’s wage, which in the case of couture garments they often are, then it is not at all difficult to envision a two hundred dollar shirt, a thousand-dollar anything. Most of those incredibly high numbers are ballgowns with hand-applied details, and because it is couture those details were not applied in a sweatshop, and so they actually paid those laborers.
It’s not hard to imagine at all.
And it’s also not hard to understand why of all luxury goods to be appalled by, the OP and everyone who has reblogged this so specifically stuck on clothes– because that’s a “women’s” thing, both the making and the wearing, and both of those things are also traditionally devalued.
eartheld:
eartheld:
i honestly cannot wrap my head around the fact people buy a single article of clothing for four figures. honestly even over like, two hundred dollars. like what the fuck. like, a car payment but a shirt. twenty houses worth of rent for one dress. a years worth of groceries for a like a hundred families for a necklace. i’m speechless what the heck
like i love the TREAT YO SELF sentiment. luv feeling good. splurging on ya self. indulging ya materialism. i get it n support it
but like, kyle jenners shoe closet is literally like, college tuition for an entire graduating class. oscar outfits are the equivalent of time and resources and energy and publicity that could deadass build towns! what the HECK!! can you believe this is real ugh
It’s at least in part because our notion of how much clothing should cost is severely distorted by the fact that basically all clothing for sale in the Western world is made in sweatshops by exploited or enslaved workers.
Like, I get your point about extravagant luxury– I for one don’t get how there can be cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars– but this post so incredibly specifically is about clothing?
Clothing is heavily devalued. Your $10 t-shirt was made by slaves. That’s why.
If you knew how much labor went into spinning, weaving, and sewing, even with machines, and then imagined those laborers being paid a craftsman’s wage, which in the case of couture garments they often are, then it is not at all difficult to envision a two hundred dollar shirt, a thousand-dollar anything. Most of those incredibly high numbers are ballgowns with hand-applied details, and because it is couture those details were not applied in a sweatshop, and so they actually paid those laborers.
It’s not hard to imagine at all.
And it’s also not hard to understand why of all luxury goods to be appalled by, the OP and everyone who has reblogged this so specifically stuck on clothes– because that’s a “women’s” thing, both the making and the wearing, and both of those things are also traditionally devalued.
