{"id":377813,"date":"2017-11-26T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377813"},"modified":"2017-11-26T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T14:24:52","slug":"beyond-shopping-12-ways-to-care-for-your-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/beyond-shopping-12-ways-to-care-for-your-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Shopping: 12 ways to care for your clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s not just the fashion industry that has a massive waste problem. We all do. Our wardrobes are bulging with clothes, many of which we don\u2019t wear. The number of garments produced globally has doubled since 2000 to more than 100bn items. If you are anything like me, you will feel as if you own a good proportion of them already.<\/p>\n
Part of the reason retailers love Black Friday so much is because they have such huge excesses of stock to offload<\/p>\n
Black Friday, which has now spread from a single day of splurge buying to an entire week, means we are about to be bombarded with discounts and offers to buy everything from a new fridge to a cashmere jumper ( just you wait, there will be mountains of cheap cashmere).<\/p>\n
Part of the reason retailers love Black Friday so much is because they have such huge excesses of stock to offload. Cheap clothes mean small profit margins so the fast fashion model relies on massive volumes to create profit. So by buying excessive amounts of cheap clothes, we all become part of one of the biggest and most troubling waste problems facing the world.<\/p>\n