I wish this concept were half as far-fetched as the headline makes it sound, but unfortunately, it isn’t. So buckle up, reader, while I open your eyes to yet another way in which the man is grinding you down without you even knowing it.
If you’re around my age, you probably didn’t take a Home Economics class in high school – whether it was called that or its new title, “Family & Consumer Sciences/FCS.” FCS classes have been steadily dropping from schools’ curricula in past decades, and the few schools that do still offer it mostly do so as an elective.
If you didn’t take Home Ec and one of your parents wasn’t into tailoring, then you probably also don’t know how to sew – by hand or with a machine. This seems like a pretty minor skill to be nitpicking about, but the fact that sewing is no longer a relatively universal skill has had huge consequences. The idea that teenagers don’t know how to sew a button on sounds like one of those absurd things boomers say because they don’t like the youth –” Back in my day….” – but it’s true. Sewing isn’t something most people know how to do on their own.
This has been instrumental to the rise and success of the fast fashion industry as we know it today. People no longer mend their clothes and repair them when they tear – they throw them out and buy new ones. And this isn’t helped by the fact that clothes just aren’t manufactured to last anymore. It’s in companies’ best financial interests to sell weaker garments...
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