designmango-Significance of Slow Fashion in the Modern World

Significance of Slow Fashion in the Modern World

If you don’t associate with most of the clothes in your wardrobe as you keep changing them frequently, you might be a consumer of the fast-fashion approach to producing clothes. It is a practice reliant on excessive production of cheap, low-quality, and mass-marketed products that cause a massive negative impact on the environment. 

On the other hand, if you’re able to associate with a majority of your clothes, recall their history, and remember memories around them, the clothes that you own are likely not easily replaceable and are produced to last long. This is the primary aim of the slow fashion approach: the ethical manufacturing process of high-quality, sustainable, and long-lasting products.

However, the significance of taking the slow fashion approach is not just limited to sustainability. In fact, choosing clothes produced through slow fashion would:

Slow Your Rate of Consumption

Taking a slow fashion approach, one takes their time choosing the most fitting clothes for them instead of buying anything randomly and mindlessly. This slows your rate of consumption as you take your time to make the best clothing choice for yourself and wear clothes that match your style and personality. 

Make you More Thoughtful, Cost-conscious, and Mindful

As you take your time to choose the best clothes for yourself, you gradually learn to make a choice that is more mindful and ethical. You learn to connect your choices with that of the bigger picture and understand the ethical and ecological implications of your choices.

  1. Become memorable

Unlike fast fashion trends that keep fluctuating frequently, slow fashion clothes have an evergreen style that, instead of fading away with time, takes on a timeless form. Moreover, since slow fashion clothes are known to be durable and long-lasting, you gradually develop a connection with them as you keep adding to your experiences and memories.

Saving Freshwater and Helping Aquatic Life

Fast fashion industries use freshwater for a lot of manufacturing and dyeing process. Shifting to a slow fashion approach can help conserve a lot of that freshwater. Moreover, the chemicals that get washed off in the ocean and harm aquatic life are also reduced with the slow fashion approach.

Support Human Rights

Since the manufacturing process of fast fashion clothes is long and complicated and not limited to one geographical location, it leads to a lot of human rights violations and misconduct taking place in third-world countries. Taking a slow fashion approach can, therefore, also help in curbing that. 

Kushal Trivedi

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