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What is Fast Fashion? It is a term to describe items of clothing replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs which are being mass produced by low costs. 20-30 years emerging in the 90’s early 2000’s fast fashion production has gotten quicker, ' cheaper, trend cycles have been speeding up at speed. Normally someone would grow out of their clothes which means they buy more but for people who believe in fast fashion they buy clothes to even wear once. Some fast fashion launch between 600 to 900 new styles each week. Fast fashion know days is impossible to avoid. Popular fast fashion brands include, Zara, Shein, Boohoo, Fashion Nova, H&M, Pretty Little Thing, Uniqulo, Primark, Topshop, GAP. One of the reasons why fashion fashion Is bad, is because it produces more carbon emissions than aeroplane travel and shipping worldwide combined. Garment workers from the UK mostly from marginalised communities, who are notoriously overworked and underpaid. Another reason why, A third of the microplastics found in the oceans come from our clothes. The materials that come from our clothes include synthetic textiles and microplastics. Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long which can be harmful to this ocean an aquatic life.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
Our social r The aquatic life that is harmed our zoo plankton which is a very important food source for many larger animals such as fish and whales which would consume the zoo plankton which have been consuming the microplastics. People have been getting more environmentally conscious and becoming more aware and driven to buy sustainable products. Sustainable products all higher quality items that last longer. Consumers have more options than fast fashion which can be hard to resist. this means buying less, buying second-hand clothes, buying from sustainable brands or even making your own clothes. A world without fast fashion would mean more long lasting and better quality clothes. Education on how to mend broken clothes if fixable instead of burning them. Paying workers fairly for the time they have worked. There are too many clothes out there and in people’s wardrobes where fast fashion would be hard to completely stop as cheap clothes ah irresistible in some people’s eyes compared to the expensive clothes in high and shop windows.
