In World 80, wearing an outfit for a month straight is the mainstream norm for industrialized, high consumer countries. The norm of this fashion culture is to wash clothing once a month. Stains and marks are considered normal. This change dates back to 1920’s where washing clothing everyday became too expensive and time consuming, as well as having a new outfit everyday became very unrealistic.
The society of this world have smaller wardrobes resulting in less garments having to be produced and sold. The positive effects this has on society is lower laundering levels, saving water, as well as lower purchasing culture, minimizing the need for fast fashion, cheap clothing, washing detergent, deodorant and perfumes. This also results in clothes being purchased at a much lower rate.
What if …
wearing the same outfit for a month straight was considered normal?
Issue targeted:
overwashing of clothing, fast fashion
Inspiration:
people overpurchasing clothing due to the fear of ‘outfit repeating’
This World was contributed by Karly Grant (located in Melbourne, Australia) using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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