Nice to read you again!
My generation did not have mothers who stitched clothing, but they did mend them, the practice then was to inherit from an older sibling, or give away.
My best friend had! Her mom sews and knits so well it made me always a bit jealous. 😂
We are in a saturated age of consumerism, labor is cheap, therefore the production of synthetics (the one you mercilessly rejected :D) is also low cost, which results in a cheap product and hyper EVERYTHING (production, employment, money flow).
Labels- there is no more stupid thing in the world than LABELS, personally know the people who are paying for it, and openly judge to me as I love secondhands.
Lack of time, creativity, ability and other excuses.
Not sure where are you from, but earlier in our elementary school system we had a "Household" subject, that dealt with daily activities including knitting, sewing, and cooking, basic survival things.
Nowdays you can not find proper tailor, crafts are dead as huge companies entered market, products are low cost, affordable (it's just a cloth), we are earning and spending, again money flow.
We messed up somewhere, in order that create better lives for ourselves.
Most common question "Who will wait a whole month on that dress?",but couture will aways be couture.
Consider your talent as a privilege and enjoy in it, not everyone have it. 😉
yesss I agree!!
To me it was more my grandmother-generation, where I could find a bit of that (she used to make me some costumes for myself and my puppets) and I think she would have been sewing for herself or her children at the time.. I guess its getting harder to find from generation to generation.
Even though I do also find labels that produce local and fair with organic fabrics, but the price is for sure very different from the massproductions, like way too expensive for most people... where it just gets really unbalanced between the cheep and the more sustainable way (adding the labels expensive in prize but cheep production)
yes we also had household lessons, its where I used to steal lots of scissors and savety-pins from😅 but also did knitting and cooking and so on..
And thank you!! its really nice to have you around:)
Personally I have many friends in fashion, all of them are striving to stay sustainable, but that costs so much that final product price isn't affordable, even when discounted. :D
Yes thats unfortunate, even though I think there is a lot of "waste" that could be reused and would lower the cost. I guess the craft or labor is the most expensive part in sustainable approaches.. (I would guess)
Most of them are playing several roles, like you.
The main problem are fabrics, finding the quality and available one, or you have to buy the whole roll (only says that market is supporting hyper production, quantity over quality).
Lack of support of small business.