Consumption

Are you eyeing this trendy but expensive sweater? Try it on, buy it, wear it... return it and get your money back. It's a technique used to avoid over-consumption, change style at any time and show off with luxury clothes, without having to pay anything. 

Wardrobing: the phenomenon is making a comeback at the moment, enabling some people to change wardrobes every week (or at least regularly), without ever spending a single euro. Wardrobing is the ideal way for fashionistas, enthusiasts and lovers of fashion to face up to inflation and dress in trendy clothes for free. Not forgetting, of course, to keep the label. 

While on the surface this technique may seem to go against the grain of over-consumption, in reality it's no less harmful to the planet. In fact, as researcher Regino Frey points out in an interview with Le Figaro and reported by RTBF: “It is often cheaper to get rid of unwanted items than to store and refresh them for resale.” By this we mean that the (vast) majority of items worn and returned go straight to landfill. Not to mention, of course, the advent of online shopping and postal returns, which have a huge impact on the environment. 

Wardrobing, a practice bordering on the illegal, is in fact the tree that hides the forest. A forest threatened by the polluting returns of “return-carried” items. What if we tried renting clothes to save money and continue, despite everything, to walk the urban catwalks, dressed in incredibly unique pieces?

(MH with AsD/Source: RTBF/Illustration: Unsplash)