Most of us are at least vaguely aware of what drives the excessive demand and supply of clothing. Constantly changing fashion trends drive demand, compelling people to exchange perfectly good clothes in favor of newer, slightly different, perfectly good clothes..
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If you live in New York City or are interested in fashion, you might be aware that this week is New York Fashion Week (NYFW for the cognoscenti). It’s a weeklong celebration of the fashion trends that will make your.
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It’s not a big secret that women buy and spend more on clothing than men–$708 versus $420 annually according to Bureau of Economic Analysis (and I’ll bet those numbers are conservative). But in the realm of technical, fashion-forward, do-it-all clothing,.
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The average American woman spends $60 and creates six pounds of waste on clothes every month. With around 160M American women, that’s $10B and 1B tons every month (American men spend a relatively measly $35). One of the reasons there is.
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What’s white, covered with lace, used once and has an average cost of $1211? If your answer was the American wedding dress, you’d be correct. While we have nothing against the institution of marriage, the marital-industrial complex has become so.
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Fungible: Exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind. Fashion: A: a prevailing custom, usage, or style; B: the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time. Americans love their clothes–the average family spends.
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