More about waste in fashion

Our society really waste a lot of money, I knew that things like this happen but it saddened me when I read this article. Why do people care about things like this when they are so unimportant? I love fashion but I never want to have the mind state where I think I can only wear an item of clothing once and then I must discard it. Are we really that selfish or are we really that afraid of what others think of us?

"No star would have been caught dead arriving in a stretch Hummer to this weekend's MTV awards. But even though disposable fashion is arguably an even worse enviro-crime, no star would have been caught dead wearing something they'd ever worn before. It seems the stigma associated with committing a fashion crime far outweighs that of committing an eco one.

It's a mystery how morality evolves in the public consciousness: some behaviors become sins that draw public shame or good acts that draw public accolades -- like Hummer versus Prius driving -- but other behaviors don't even register. Last week, I forgot my canvas shopping bags and got stink eye from at least three people in the line at the grocery store for my transgression -- fair enough. But this week at New York Fashion Week, I bet no one bats an eyelid at front-row attendees who show up in resource-intensive outfits they'd wear only once.

This summer, Anna Wintour (the queen of fashion, who edits Vogue magazine, and who was parodied in The Devil Wears Prada), was caught wearing the same Prada dress twice (gasp!). The news immediately hit dozens of fashion blogs, some of which weighed in with genuine horror, others with the schadenfreude of catching the enforcer committing an infraction, and still others that commented tongue-in-cheek.

Then she was caught wearing the same Carolina Herrera dress three times in a week! "Never in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine Anna Wintour wearing anything twice. Not even the same lipstick. Yet it happened. How could this be? Has she been placed on an austerity budget? Is she becoming senile? Or is she just toying with us again... Or maybe Anna's going soft in her golden years," commented the Bosh blog."
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