Do fast fashion trends negatively affect individuals? by Ashley B 2025

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:53:07 UTC

Promotes poor financial decision making.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:54:18 UTC

Directly funds and supports unethical factories and sweatshops.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:55:23 UTC

Provides access to quick, cheap products and goods.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:56:02 UTC

Builds internal insecurity for those who can't keep up with the trends.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:57:57 UTC

Production requires tons of water, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 18:59:39 UTC

Pollutes land and dries/ contaminates water sources.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 19:00:53 UTC

Allows a larger portion of society to create their own individualized style, since its cheaper and easily accessed.

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 19:02:00 UTC

Cheap synthetic materials shed microplastics onto our skin, and in the water when washing.

85 % of all textiles go to dumps each year

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 19:03:53 UTC

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 21:10:25 UTC

ashleyxb25 — 2024-12-16 21:27:02 UTC

Specific styles are easier to come by and are typically more size inclusive.

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:21:27 UTC

The industry employs approximately 75 million factory workers worldwide, yet less than 2% earn a living wage. Garment workers endure unsafe conditions, wage theft, exhausting hours, minimal pay, and gender-based harassment.

SONG ABOUT UNETHICAL LABOR

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:28:24 UTC

"Cold

Shackled to

The bottom

Of the bottle

Of the socio-economic slavery

That rules

And runs my life"

SONG ABOUT WOMEN FORCED TO DO TOO MUCH LABOR

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:35:36 UTC

"Who tends the orchards? Who fixes up the gables?

Emotional torture from the head of your high table

Who fetches the water from the rocky mountain spring?

And walk back down again to feel your words and their sharp sting"

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:37:30 UTC

This song is comparable to the gender based harassment and differing treatment that females factory workers face.

COLOR CODED KEY FOR DIAGRAM

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:40:03 UTC

SONG ABOUT WORKING EXCESSIVELY FOR ANOTHERS BENFIT

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-10 21:52:45 UTC

"Well, I get up at seven, yeah

And I’ll go to work at nine

I got no time for livin’

Yes, I’m workin’ all the time

It seems to me

I could live my life

A lot better than I think I am

I guess that’s why they call me

They call me the workin’ man"

ashleyxb25 — 2025-01-14 00:11:04 UTC