Cheap Fashion, Affecting the Environment?

What do I mean by this? Have you noticed how your closet has soured over this past year because fashion is becoming cheap and you tend to buy more?

In the past, you might have only owned one pair of shoes. Okay, maybe two. Or three. But the point is, what you owned was durable, made of leather, hard to find and expensive. Now you can see shoes sold by the road. Cheap, affordable and readily available to everyone. So a pair or two of expensive, good shoes are replaced by a dozen or two pairs of cheap shoes. Same goes with bags. You get tons of them and can get endless. And I don't really have any problem with that as long as you don't toss them to the bin every other month. Not because you don't like them anymore. But because they are torn, broken, of poor quality. And that adds to the world's trash pile. Loads and loads of cheap fashion left to Mother Earth.

So the next time you go shopping, think! Can I still use this item after a year, or five or ten? Is this fashion trend only good for a month, a season? How many hair pins do I really need? And am I really serious with all those cheap accessories that I don’t really connect with, that I don't really like? Where will I wear this pair of very high red shoes? Will I really dare to put on  this sexy dress? Do I really like this colour? Above all, do I really need it and do I really have the money to buy it?

 A smart way to not accumulate all that junk is to get a style. And I don’t mean fashion and trend either. We might be fashionable and follow the trends religiously but we could be missing out the whole point about style.