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Something strange has happened to high street clothes – so I’ve taken action | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
With pre-loved sites, I can get my fashion fix without it costing the earth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
By tagging clothes, the Changing Markets Foundation followed a skirt handed in to H&M in London’s Oxford Street in 2022, and found that it travelled 15,467 miles around the world, through a processing facility in the United Arab Emirates, only to be dumped in Bamako, Mali, five months later. Folding up a bunch of Primark floral indie-girl dresses, now destined for a charity shop, it’s striking how their quality would be on a par with some costing £80-100 from a chain these days. When I was pregnant and nursing, I lived in vintage St Michael buttoned dresses: so much cheaper than fast-fashion maternity wear, but also markedly better made.
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