Month: January 2013

obscenepromqueen:

The argument that ‘plus-size’ clothes cost…

veeisagenderneutralname:

everminding:

veeisagenderneutralname:

The argument that ‘plus-size’ clothes cost more because they take more fabric is bullshit. If clothing sizes were priced by the amount of material they take to make, each size would cost a little more than the size below it. And if a size 20 would cost more than a size 12 then a size 10 should cost more than a size 2. But it doesn’t. Because your argument is fucking bullshit.

And if fat bodies were valued as much as thin bodies, the extra cost in materials would be applied over all sizes and averaged out to one price. If fat bodies were valued as much as thinbodies, this wouldn’t even be a fucking conversation. End of story.

Get this.

The amount of fabric waste in fashion is staggering.  

When companies are cutting out fabric pieces for clothing the excess fabric is thrown away.  Cutting out fabric for a size 20 pair of pants doesn’t actually cost more than fabric for a size 4 because all those inches of fabric from the leg piece to the edge of the fabric aren’t used – usually they aren’t even the right size or grain to make other pieces like the waistband or cuffs.

There is a movement happening among some smaller companies making their patterns that use as much fabric as possible, selvage to selvage, to reduce waste – but to the vast majority of large clothing manufacturers, this is a huge time waster when the cost of cheap fabric in fast fashion is negligible anyways.

Yes this makes a lot of sense! 

I’ve been thinking about these sorts of things pretty often for the last few months.