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The life cycle of Dad's clothes
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Meanwhile companies like Shein encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage as a sacrifice to the gods of super-fast-fashion
Encourage, or just enable?
I've never heard of Shein telling anyone to do it. I just know their prices are so goddamn cheap you COULD do it if you wanted to. Some people probably do. But I suspect a lot of people just want cheap clothes and will wear them until they have holes in them (which even for Shein clothes has to be multiple wearings usually I'm pretty sure)
In the German documentary I've watched a few years ago it definitely looked like their business model was selling their customers insane amounts of cheaply produced clothing by encouraging them to change their outfit super-often, hence the terms fast fashion. They even pay influencers to promote this wasteful trend as "Shein hauls"
Having gotten some Temu clothing as gifts, there are two main materials I've seen. One feels very much like a rough cotton, like the material harem pants are made of, and is mainly in the shorts/pants I've gotten. It's a cotton poly blend, and one is the material of the shirts. They're super stretchy and elastic, like a spandex almost. The pants and shorts end up with holes quickly as they rip near (but not on) the seams, and the shirts seem to actually last even if snagged because of how stretchy they are.
I wouldn't advise buying from them or anything, just saying that they're not exactly single use.
do you have a single fact to back that up?
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I just wanted to make the Deus ex reference. But I would like to see evidenceHere's a video essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I
The fast fashion part?
https://time.com/6247732/shein-climate-change-labor-fashion/
The encouraging a single use part? Also in that article, but it revolves around influencers driving constant change. But also the clothes being really cheap and falling apart.
And anecdotally, there's a pile of clothes in my wife's closet that still haven't gotten their first wear.
OK, I'll put that under "exaggeration for emphasis".
Yeah, I was a exaggerating a bit, but the waste of clothing and environmental damage is real. I saw it in a documentary. And Shein's website is (or used to be) full of greenwashing.
Chew you havisfaction a singleicious satisfact to snack that up?
Which only further encourages the existing tendency for single-use clothing that some groups of people exhibit.