How long is the ‘shelf life’ of garments on the High Street?
12 weeks
What is the attraction of DFO stores to 22-year-old student Montannah Ortega?
All the good stores are there and it’s cheaper
What does ‘fast fashion’ mean?
- Buying garments at cheaper prices
- Fashion trends go in and out so quickly
- Knowing that you won’t get much wear out of those clothes
On average, how many garments a year do Australian women buy?
56
On average, how many garments a year do Australian men buy?
29
How much money does Australia spend on buying clothes every year?
$10.4 billion
In order to sell more goods/units, stores that once discounted twice a year, what do they do now?
- Move their ranges to sales racks every 6 weeks
- Encourage us to buy more with incitements, such as “buy 1, get one free.”
What kind of problems are created by the availability of ‘cheap’ fashion?
Sweatshop workers in Asian countries endure long hours, poor pay and conditions, and low wages i.e.18 cents an hour!
List the 3 areas of damage that fashion creates as claimed by the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing.
- Pesticides used on cotton fields.
- Carbon emissions and toxic chemicals created during production.
- 1.88 million tonnes of unwanted clothing sent to landfill in Britain alone each year.
What does the article claim the shops do with surplus stock and samples in clothing stores?
- Donate to charity.
- Dump them into landfill
What do St Vincent De Paul and the Brotherhood of St Laurence say they do with unsold or unsaleable stock?
- Sent to third parties to be recycled as rags.
- Underfelt for carpets or other industrial uses.
- Sold to markets in 3rd world countries.
What are some of the ideas the article suggest to slow down the culture of fast fashion?
- Convince companies to slow down production cycles.
- Encourage consumers to buy less.
- Encouraging recycling and better waste management
