Your ripped clothes deserve better than the bottom of your closet or – worse – the trash can. The French government is now paying people to get them repaired...

Incentivising repairing clothes via policy, monetary incentives and changing cultural norms all help to move to more sustainable fashion.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Then again when I hear stats like the average item of clothing is worn 7 times, maybe I am not really the target of this

    I would be curious if this gets skewed by things like formalwear that someone might have had for just the one event, or don’t wear very often. Or if the survey question was ambiguous.

    7 times total seems very low. 7 times before a wash seems a bit more reasonable.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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      7 hours ago

      Ohh good point with formal wear. I utterly hate it. It feels single use because each time I need it the dress code is different so I need to buy yet another fucking shirt that I will probably never wear again because the next time will have a different dress code!