Yeah, the clothes were cheap but housing, healthcare & education drove us to having record high credit card debt already. Once the tariffs kick in it's going to be instantaneous massive credit card defaults. We already have people putting Uber Eats on a payment plan.
Folks thinking this is gonna doom disposable fast fashion are kidding themselves. It will only accelerate it as more consumers will search for CHEAPER substitute goods.
TBF, most clothes are of garbage quality these days and a massive amount of them end up polluting Africa or in landfill. Going cold turkey on them might not be so bad. Won’t get the textile industry back so easily though, especially without immigrants. American-made is better quality.
the problem with that is 1) there aren't really other clothes, and 2) in the meantime, all of the clothes you already have are falling apart at the same rate they were before
Yes, most clothes are garbage quality these days; but American made clothing is not necessarily better quality than imported clothing. There are fast fashion factories in LA.
If these last one week I’d be surprised. Because he’s going to lose his own caucus. If, somehow, we get free and fair elections in ‘26, it will take years for them to come back.
Seamstress here. First thing I thought when I saw Cambodia, Bangladesh, India, etc. in the crosshairs was “oh fuck apparel fabric is going to get so expensive” followed by “oh fuck CLOTHES IN GENERAL are going to get so expensive.”
I was planning to purge my fabric stash, but I am rapidly rethinking that. Now I'm thinking about heading to Joann to see if there's any stock left for things I need (material for my scrubs, etc).
Fabric and notion prices were high before, and now scarce because of craft stores closing. Walmart knocked a lot of mom and pop fabric stores out of business.
By the end of all this, I assume that the military and congressional leaders will somehow install Menswear Guy as the head of our truth and reconciliation interim government
Wholesale t-shirt prices appear to be guaranteed through today - meaning they're planning to re-price tomorrow. Will be very interesting to see what happens.
I would love to see us swap off fast fashion to fewer but more durable USA-made clothing... unfortunately, I don't see that happening with these tariffs.
That part might actually be a good thing. The exploitation of inequitable standards of living for manufacturing abroad is a travesty and fast fashion is one of the chief contributors to that. Tariffs are bad, sweatshops are worse.
Plenty of other countries have low priced retail like Zara or Uniqlo. The majority of retail is not cheap... $100 jeans and $35 t-shirts... maybe that's cheap to you but it's a good portion of a paycheck for me.
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Fascist Fashion? Ok!
Used clothes
Used cars
If your input materials are made in America, you’re still fucked because prices are global, and removing supply will raise prices.
this is all a patriotic sacrifice for the goal of... something, i guess, i dunno. we'll figure that out later
And Hancock's already gone.