An excerpt from the September 9th, 2008, Vancouver Sun.
By Joanne Sasvari
The same way we've forgotten how to save our pennies, we've forgotten how to invest in our wardrobes. For the past decade and more, we've been on a reckless spend-o-rama, maxing out our credit cards with cheap, chic, disposable fast fashion.
But now -- with rising concerns about the economy, the environment and worker exploitation in developing countries, not to mention a season of temptingly timeless modern classics -- investment dressing is chic again.
Good thing, too. All those cheap Prada knock-offs were not only clogging up the landfills, they were overflowing the closets in our tiny condos, too.
The investment dressing trend is major news all over, according to everyone from the editors of fashion magazines to tastemakers like Holt Renfrew fashion director Barbara Atkin, to the designers themselves and right on up to politicians.
Just last week, England's House of Lords' Science and Technology Committee released a report that condemned cheap and chic insta-fashion, calling it "costly and socially unacceptable."
The report pointed out that clothes from retailers like Britain's uber-popular Primark and Top Shop are so cheap that there is no incentive to repair them, or even to hand them down or recycle them. And that, they say, is just wasteful.
You can read the full article at Canada.com - http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=0f2af413-2e6f-4df0-80d8-aa2be4d704cd
