Global warming fueling clothing industry
Global warming fueling clothing industry
Heard of the ice caps melting? Dangers of losing our poles? Have you also noticed the trend in popular clothing lines? Seen the short shorts, skirts, and shirts that are so thin you have to wear at least five layers of them to look properly clothed?
Global warming is a scientific phenomenon that causes an overall trend of warming over hundreds of years. Caused by greenhouse gases trapping sunlight in the earth’s atmosphere, global warming is gradual, but pressing. The name is often misleading. Global warming does not cause a nonstop temperature rise until it we all die in a desert. At a certain point, the temperature rise that melts the ice caps we’re hearing about causes a shift in the underwater current. In turn, winds passing over these become colder – giving us the possibility for another ice age.
Now, how does this affect the clothing industry?
If it’s hot now, as global warming says, it’ll just get hotter. Bring out the tank tops and the shorts. We can’t stand this weather! But as most experts say, global warming makes weather more extreme – hotter, colder, wetter – and as the year goes round, we’ll need more shirts to bundle us up. Easy solution? Make shirts thin; that way, over the summer you’ll have as many shirts as you want to design your wardrobe and then over the winter, just put them all on over each other. More flexibility, more diversity, and more money – for the companies.
Layering has become the new fashion. Different sleeve-lengths, shirt-lengths, colors…put them all together, one on top of the other, and you’ll never run out. Mathematically, the combinations would go up exponentially with each shirt you bought. This also makes it worthwhile for buyers – you don’t need that many shirts to come up with a pretty expansive wardrobe. Plus, with global warming causing these unpredictably extreme weather “patterns,� you’ll be ready for anything!
White was the new black last year, along with neon pink and green. That was the icy watermelon year; makes you think of bubble tea. This year is a more chill series of tones – browns and blues; makes you think of the ocean, beaches, and chocolate. Why isn’t black “in� anymore?
You’d fry.
Again, this makes it much easier for clothing companies – they only need to pick two or three colors and mass-produce all articles of clothing in those colors. Who needs black? It’s not practical at all. At one point, it was safe to wear black because it worked on every occasion, could be casual or formal, and the sun didn’t bake you to death. Now, not only is it impractical due to the weather, but let me remind you that black isn’t a real color.
So, with global warming here, clothing companies can inch their way toward making the big bucks. People need more clothing for layering to stay weather savvy and to be accepted into this “in� crowd.
Angelina Liang