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Yes and yes.

Briefly looked at the wife's side of the closest. First article that I stumbled upon with a Shein tag was a long sleeve blouse: neck tag labeled made in China, material tag (inner botton-left) labeled 5% elastane, 95% polyester.

Another article, cardigan: China, 100% acrylic.

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Shes doing her part to contribute pure micro-plastics into the water supply every wash cycle!

There's a $1.8T global textile market out there and the best cherry-pick you could come up with to whine about is the micro-plastic residual of a single woman's laundry day?

Congrats, you're one of the 10,000 today to learn about the word synecdoche:

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I didn't know about this! Thanks for sharing. How do you apply this in the context of the parent comment?

It's not about a single woman's laundry habits, it's about how one person's habits represents the habits and by extension culture of everyone who does laundry.

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