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It’s very poetic (in a tragic way) that the US Civil War started the mass-production of clothing. Also, the wealth of knowledge from our individual and collective heritages and cultures that has been buried by those in power. Such a thoughtful and inspiring conversation! It makes me want to teach more people to knit, crochet, and sew!

Absolutely love this series, Amanda! Every time I make a little patch, sew a little button or dye something that was stained -- I can feel the rebellion against system flowing thru my veins. Every time I listen to your episodes too! Enjoy your trip!

Great podcast ! I've learned so much from Clotheshorse and am now committed to not buying anymore fast fashion garbagy clothes and useless items.

deco denim is awesome

The only time I actually trust the word “lux” is when the local alpaca farmer e-mails me (personally) about her “Lux alpaca merino blend roving” and by “lux” she means “DELUXE- needle-felting blend- just for you so you don’t have to card in the sheep wool yourself”😅

I am binge listening your podcast. Thank you for your work.

The algorithm brought me here to your podcast and I am very glad it did, I very much enjoy listening to your ideas and the wisdom you bring from your professional experience

I used to live buying clothes and shoes from target. In the early 2000s I thought their styles and clothes were so much better than the other retailers. I’m not a fan anymore. They’re no longer unique, and the quality has gone down significantly. For quality now, I turn to boston proper or Venus. Their quality has stayed true over the years, and their styles I’ve found are still very unique. I know whatever I purchase from there is an investment and I can wear it for years. I don’t know if any other retailers like this anymore

I feel like Filene’s basement was the trend to this concept

Well, of all the shein critiques I listened to, none of them outlined how it’s leading to the loss of American jobs. We need to be telling everyone who works clothing retail that if they shop shein, they are contributing to an increased chance of losing their jobs.

Nice work! Listening to you two made me feel motivated.

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I enjoyed the podcast. Hope your Jamboree comes off. I do an upcycling program for our local thrift shop on Martha’s Vineyard. Have you considered using upcycled items for your merch? For example changing the logo on a tote bag by covering it with yours. Or adding your logo to a man’s shirt. Keep up the good fight.

People forget....the Charity is the store and what they raise money for...not who the end consumer will be. Great podcast!

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Wonderful, celebratory episode! The puppet show is 😅 unhinged in the best way. Big congrats Clotheshorse ❤

This was so well done!!! I really enjoyed all of it!!! Happy 200th!

This was great! Great deep dive and hopeful actionable things. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but the reason so many have to work so hard is because of the demand we create with our consumption. Less consumption = less work/production/resources, hopefully, right? We could pay less people more at a company if we produce less. This goes for everything; fashion, food, random collectable items, toys, electronics, etc... Even though a rich person probably makes a more resource intensive one time purchase than a poor person, the 99% is still a big portion that can make an impact. Also, if more money was given to workers in the first place instead of being stockpiled at the top, that'd be great...

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Had a friend who worked at the post office. This past year, things have gotten horrible. They gave him a pay cut, moved the office he was working out of so that he had a longer commute, and added to his route. Now I hear that post offices are being expected to do last-mile delivery on Amazon packages increasing their workload even further.

I have found tons of 100% wool thick aran knit sweaters while thrifting for $20-50. I think a lot of people focus on the look rather than the feel of clothes nowadays. I appreciate that you mentioned looking at the fabric content. Even on a tight budget, Marshals, Saks, Nordstrom, etc., all have great options with no synthetics if you are willing to do some digging. However, To be 100% honest, manufacturers have mastered making really soft polyester and acrylic yarns. While they don't hold a candle to cashmere, give the average person a choice between a 100% cotton jumper and a vibrant colorfast 100% Acrylic one, and I wouldn't be surprised if the majority chose to go with the synthetic option.

Why are people shocked Anthropologie is fast fashion? I think any store in the mall that sells clothes (unless its secondhand or a vintage store) is automatically fast fashion. Anthroplogie is a store you can find in a mall--therefore, duh, its fast fashion. Why the debate?

I see ross on there. Do you or have you covered companies like Ross and Burlington?

“yummy” got me 😂

Wow, didn’t notice this about Anthropologie! I’m glad I knit my own sweaters. Many people thrift sweaters for the yarn, but the yarn really does suck these days

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Right around minute 18 the mix gets wild. It’s sounds like two of you are having completely separate conversations and are talking over each other.

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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John R. Wooden

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

This is such an excellent episode! It really got me rethinking how I think about my clothing journey. I also felt good about thinking similarly about wardrobe capsules. I love the idea but always felt that I struggled with it. I'm going to sit and rethink my sustainability & where I'm at with the clothes I have and how I connect with them. Thank you💕

I think some of my relatives thought my career was just "fluff". My mother in law asked me if she thought my brother in law could get into doing what I did (design) as if it was something so easy just anyone could walk into it with no experience, schooling or training.

As an adult doll collector who was a young American Girl fan in the early Mattel era (My girl was Molly, Christmas '99, six years old) I can't help but have a few thoughts about this episode I wanted to share (and I am sharing here not instagram because I can't help but type so much. Sorry in advance). I didn't realize Pleasant Company was owned by Mattel when I was a kid - I was surprised as an adult to learn they look over in the late 90s and not the late 00s like I thought for a long time. They used the Pleasant Company brand name when I was a kid, I swear remembering, if not for the dolls then for their publishing division (they had books outside of just the ones that went with the dolls such non fiction books for tween girls including the extremely helpful The Care and Keeping of You which taught me a lot about puberty when I didn't otherwise know where to find that information.). There was an American Girl magazine (not the catalogue) I subscribed to probably from like 2000 - 2003 that was also pretty great for tweens. My favorite thing about the magazine were these free paper dolls they made which were based on the family lineage of real life girls who would send in photos and history, recreating historically accurate pieces to represent their ancestors (I still have some because I pasted them in a fashion journal in junior high). They had other toy lines throughout the early to mid 00s too that I was into including an more 'collector', older girl intended line called Girls of Many Lands that also had full novellas (which did not shy away from heavier topics) and were about girls from other countries besides America (this didn't do well though, older kid target dolls are a harder sell), and a line of funky contemporary miniature interiors that were meant to go in shadow boxes wired to plug in working lights. I had the coolest American Girl theater computer program that allowed me to create and write my own 'plays' with the historical features (it had this text to speech function that I maybe abused as I got older.). My first diary is AG. Yet - I also have this strong memory of asking my mom why it seemed in the catalogue the historical girls weren't getting as much page time, and her explaining to me that the contemporary girls (the ones you could customize, the Girl of The Year) were more popular. That didn't compute - I loved the historical girls, I loved historical costume (not sure if AG caused that or if I liked AG because of that), all their details, their stories. And most other girls didn't, allegedly? This was the first time I had this inclination of feeling like I, as part of demographic, was being underestimated by adults (it ties into my life long hatred of adults claiming younger people don't know about things because it's 'before their time' and the like). But they added Kit and Kaya around this time so at the very least it seemed like they were only expanding (this history behind how they developed Kaya to be as respectful as possible is very interesting, side note), but I was still annoyed as a kid things were changing. I lost track of AG dolls once I was a teen until I started getting back into dolls in college and did some catching up. The major change to their outfits happened when they rebranded the historical dolls as 'Be Forever', where, thinking this is what little girls wanted apparently, they made the clothes brighter, pinker, and more like Halloween costume representations of their eras. Julie Albright had been released just before this and her pre-Be Forever line is SO COOL, fabulous 1970s, but most her outfits were redesigned and never recovered. The ditched the 'Be Forever' title but the looks stuck around. And I do think it was the late 00s/early 10s where you see the fast fashion-ification of things more so then earlier, which makes sense. This is really across all doll lines though. On another topic that came up in the episode, Mattel's line that competed with Bratz was My Scene, which I think at least for the first few years were really cute in their own right and they did somewhat well (they got redesigned around 2006, in which they were much less cute). The 'bad line' I can think of that was made to maybe compete with Bratz was the short lived Flavas, which were these tone deaf 'urban' themed dolls. The history behind those is still interesting because it is a classic case of higher ups not giving creative the trust, freedom, and time to actually deliver a good product.

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