You know, I’m really glad you posted this because it’s a succinct example of the type of comment that’s both infuriating and nearly impossible to counter. You’ve given us an opportunity to analyze it.

As a professional writer (though contributing ATM) the correct way to respond to a reader correction is “Whoops! Thanks for caching that! Fixed!”

Seriously. My ex-husband is an officer in the Army, and it was this shit right out of the gate, even back in 2003, before there were this many companies, and this much social media. I think I can only remember one spouse get together that wasn’t a front for some MLM nonsense. My distaste for such things, coupled with…

“holy shit it was a typo chill” is not an appropriate response level reply to a helpful correction. the poster did not berate you so your aggressive response is neither warranted nor professional. So maybe you should chill.

Of course. The guy just spouted some word salad of buzzwords (uneducated, desirable, organic) to cover up the fact he and his brand are full of shit.

Sorry guys, I should have known this would bring out all the MRA types. They’re like bloodhounds for this shit.

You only have to graze nuts to make a guy feel like he wants to vomit. But for it to actually trigger the vom reflex, your strike has to be on point, accurate, and either ferociously hard and sharp, or savagely strong and grippy for a few seconds.

Oh my god, I can relate to this. Went through his phone when he went to the bathroom cause he had been pretty damn bad about hiding it earlier that day. Bam. Most recent text convo.

Reminds me of when I had to argue with a jeweler about repairing a piece of jewelry I had. He eventually did the work, but it was clear he felt it was beneath him, and I should really be buying new. I was young at the time, and so just took his insults, told him it wasn’t about the money and that it had sentimental…

This! I have taught everyone in the family to do a simple needle and thread job. We even patch stuff we are donating so that it doesn’t end up tossed out by sorters. It is also incredibly inexpensive to have small things like zippers, etc. fixed by a place that offers alterations.

I`ve tried to mitigate some of that by buying clothing from a couple of local stores that are actually local designer co-ops (within 5o0 kms, it’s Canada - I’m in the Montreal-Windsor corridor and even we need to expand our definition of “local” given the distances between cities). Anyway, they have a lot of really…

At least where I live (Florida), thrift stores are shitty. It’s all polyester crap from dead elderly retirees—they die and their kids bundle up all their clothes and dump them at Goodwill. There are literally no nice clothes that I would want to wear.

I would LOVE to see Jezebel do a series on ethical clothing/accessory sources, highlighting one place each week that sells clothing made ethically (harvesting of the material/spinning/weaving/sewing/etc).

Dov Charney, American Apparel’s founder, is an accused rapist, and their advertising, historically, has been some of the most demeaning in the industry. That should put you off before anything.

Fashion is the second biggest polluting industry in the world, after Big Oil. We all own way too many clothes. We are all responsible for this scandal because of excessive consumption. And we are killing humans in Asia because of the amount of chemicals they are exposed to while they grow our cotton for fast fashion.…

I’m a huge fan of buying things used. I live in an extremely hipster area where the thrift stores are well picked over, but i spent an hour and $25 at goodwill the other day and bought a beautiful black cashmere sweater, a silk blouse, and a crisp $85 noordstrom button down with the tags still attached. It’s not…

I assume the US has similar brands, but in Australia we have like Witchery, Cue and Gorman which are semi-higher end and super transparent about where they are they make and are fairly ethical. They generally tend to be make it in country as well which is great environmentally speaking and with higher quality fabrics.…

My feet haven’t grown since I was 12 so I still wear the same pairs of Dr Martens (boots and oxfords) my mum bought me in seventh grade! You know, back when Docs were still made in England and not a Chinese sweat shop.

It took me less than 30 seconds to pull up at least 3 pages of ethically made clothing sources on google.

This is great. I wish more people would start moving away from fast fashion.