ᥕᥱᥣᥴoꭑᥱ ！ %¡✩

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

So the length of time something "lasts" is dependent on how many clothes you have. If you have 20 shirts, you're wearing each one 5% of the time; if you have 4 shirts, you're wearing each one 25% of the time, assuming you wear them all equally.

So if one of your 20 shirts takes 3 years to wear out, if you downsized your wardrobe to 4 shirts, you would need to divide 3 years by 5 to estimate how long those shirts are going to last.

Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Excellent book about (as the person who I heard about the book from said) the history of cloth and clothes as opposed to the history of fashion.

　　𓏸 𓂂𓈒♪ ❤︎ㅤ 🍀 ˚◌ 🍎 ံ့ ʕ̢̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩·͡˔·ོɁ̡̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩ ৣ ۬۟

　　ׅ⠀ 𓈒ཾ⠀ ᣟᤢ サマースクール　ꪆ

ᩘ♡ 🪷̼͎̞̅ ⃘໋ׅ̽ ᭢ 𓈒ིུ ✦ ༚༅༚˳

if you can’t get out of bed, try and sit up instead of lying down. it’ll be better for your back and your blood pressure.

if you can’t shower or have a bath today, try and brush your teeth and clean your ears. it’ll keep you a little cleaner, and we often forget those areas. 

if you can’t get dressed today, change underwear and use some deoderant. it’ll leave you a little fresher until you have the strength to change fully.

"And yet, despite our resistance to it, I have never found myself feeling worse after the hard work was done. There have been days when it was damn hard to start, but it was always worth finishing. Sometimes, the simple act of showing up and having the courage to do the work, even in an average manner, is a victory worth celebrating."

Holy fuck. Tattoo that one on your bones.

.𖥔 ݁ ˖ ⋆୨Your the ੭ apple of my eye‧₊˚ 𓂃 ˖𖥔 ݁.

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꒰ঌᐢ.ˬ.ᐢ໒꒱

༊࿐ ͎. ｡˚ ° ⊹ ˚.

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

·*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙　✩　*̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙

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"And yet, despite our resistance to it, I have never found myself feeling worse after the hard work was done. There have been days when it was damn hard to start, but it was always worth finishing. Sometimes, the simple act of showing up and having the courage to do the work, even in an average manner, is a victory worth celebrating."

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✺ ֹ⠀ 🌱⠀⠀ ⊹ ִ （✿ ◞◟）⠀⠀ ⁺  

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✺ ֹ⠀ 🍧⠀⠀ ⊹ ִ （✿ ◞◟）⠀⠀ ⁺  

➻ ♡ 🧁⁺ »

➻ ♡ 🍮⁺ »

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 𝗆𝗒 𝖿𝖺𝗏𝗈𝗋𝗂𝗍𝖾 𝗄𝖺𝗈𝗆𝗈𝗃𝗂 ฅ

𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴

꒰ ⸝⸝ ˊ͈ ˘ ˋ͈ ⸝⸝ ꒱⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮꒰◌´ତ `◌ ꒱ྀིა ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮꒰ྀི ◞ ⸝⸝⸝ ◟ ꒱ྀི১

૮꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ ก꒱ྀི১ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮ ྀི ◞ ◟ ა ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ໒꒰ྀི ๑ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀིა

૮꒰/ฅ//ฅ//꒱ა ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮꒰˶ฅ́˘ฅ̀˶꒱ა ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮꒰◌ .๑. ꒱ა

૮꒰ྀི ◞ ๑ ◟ ꒱ა ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮꒰ྀི ୨ ៸៸៸ ୧ ྀི꒱ა ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ◝꒰ ´ ˘ `♡ ꒱

𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘴

♡ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ୨୧ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ୨ৎ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ฅ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ೀ

☆ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⑅ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ♩ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ◌ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ꕤ

𓋜 ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ๑ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ៸៸៸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ‹𝟹 ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ʚ

ꔫ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 𓈒 𓈒 𓈒 ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 𐂯 ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ◝ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ᵎᵎ

𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥-𝘢-𝘬𝘢𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘫𝘪’! (𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴)

꒰ ꒱ྀི ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ꒰ ꒱ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ૮ ა ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ฅ ฅ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ก ก