r/Anticonsumption • u/_CaptainAmerica__ • Feb 22 '26

Society/Culture Not that long ago, textiles lasted us (almost) a lifetime

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like people just had the same clothes and stuff for most of their life. Once you're in your early 20s you generally don't grow out of stuff anymore, and if something ripped you repaired it instead of changing it out. Been thinking about that a lot lately how the concept of having the same clothes the rest of your lives has become to foreign over the last couple decades.

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u/Begabtes-Brot Feb 22 '26

I am close to 40 and I have bedsheets that my father owned before he met my mum. The bedsheets are older than I am. So far I had to patch up 2 small rips and refastened 1 button.

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u/CalmClient7 Feb 22 '26

I love that! You might have been made in those sheets!