I don’t believe that the average American buys 68 pieces of clothing a year. I’d like them to share the source of that. The author doesn’t offer one that I saw.
TBC, I think wearing something 3-4 times and discarding it is horrible.
TBC, I think wearing something 3-4 times and discarding it is horrible.
https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=-4ODDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=...
They don't seem to have a source. Not linked anyways. Sources might be listed at the end of the book.
ETA: Ah, they have the "source" in "notes." They are quoting a CEO of a retailer, so I guess they wouldn't ask sources. You would need to "fact-check" the CEO. ;)
I suppose you could just skip over all parts of the book which talks about numbers, because it's too much work to track those down to see if they are legit.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/rent-the-runwa...
> According to Jennifer Hyman, the C.E.O. of Rent the Runway, I am not alone. “Every woman has the feeling of opening up her closet and seeing the dozens of dead dresses that she’s worn only once,” she told me recently. Each year, as Hyman is fond of pointing out, the average American buys sixty-eight items of clothing, eighty per cent of which are seldom worn; twenty per cent of what the $2.4-trillion global fashion industry generates is thrown away.
So its probably a made up statistic so they can justify their business model of renting clothes.
Still, when you say "68 items of clothing", most people think pants, blouses, dresses, costumes, and the like. But that's the fun with statistics :-(
There must be people who buy three or four pieces of clothing every week for years.