A nice Lolita outfit, I'm aiming to get something similar sometime in the future.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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I think the issue is mass produced clothing does not last long so does not hit the secondary market. Going back to my post a little bit there was a thriving used market in Japan and that is usually where people who did not have access or expertise to make things could get into the culture. You also had more of a sense of community with people helping others out to learn things and perhaps get equipment. Current Maker culture is like that right now where shared spaces have expensive gear you can use to finish projects.
That’s awesome, fast fashion poisoned me on fashion as a concept until I started lurking around lefty discussion of it that reject the consumer bullshit.
If I get you properly, the learning curve can be reframed as community building through onboarding? As opposed to my original (flawed?) framing of gatekeeping, I mean.
It’s kinda wild how rejecting consumer culture forced us to turn into makers if we go hard enough in the rejection. Cool, but also kinda wild.