Is Climate Change Affecting Fashion?
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2012/11/08 23:00:00
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U.S. climates have been warming up in recent years, a fact that we're really noticing on the West Coast (today is the first day I've needed a jacket this season) and scientists are talking about the negative effects of climate change more and more. However, I bet you haven't heard about how it's affecting the fashion world.
Because of our extra long summers, retailers and clothing brands are losing money on their winter collections -- most people aren't willing to spend money on heavy winter attire if they won't need to wear it.
In response, companies like Target and Kohl's are beginning to work with meteorologists and climatologists to figure out what sort of clothing to sell in their stores throughout the year. As other retailers follow suit, we might start having only a couple of weeks to stock up on pea coats, scarves, wool sweaters and boots before they replace warm clothes with t-shirts. What do you think, SodaHeads? Is climate change affecting fashion? Or are you not buying it?
HUFFINGTONPOST.COM reports:
Because of our extra long summers, retailers and clothing brands are losing money on their winter collections -- most people aren't willing to spend money on heavy winter attire if they won't need to wear it.
In response, companies like Target and Kohl's are beginning to work with meteorologists and climatologists to figure out what sort of clothing to sell in their stores throughout the year. As other retailers follow suit, we might start having only a couple of weeks to stock up on pea coats, scarves, wool sweaters and boots before they replace warm clothes with t-shirts. What do you think, SodaHeads? Is climate change affecting fashion? Or are you not buying it?
HUFFINGTONPOST.COM reports:
The nefarious effects of climate change can be felt everywhere, scientists say, from last year's extra-balmy winter to last week's Hurricane Sandy, a storm whose destructive brawn some attribute to global warming. But flux in climate patterns is also manifesting in an unlikely place: our closets.
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Top Opinion
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No, I don't believe in climate change
+8Spring is cool, Summer is hot, fall is cool, winter is cold. Thus the same climate changes that have been effecting what people wear for decades. No change, other than the style. If it's cold....wear a coat. That's all the thinking that's required.
See Michael Crichton's book "State of Fear".
Now, as for its effect on THE FASHION INDUSTRY (not fashion itself)... I wouldn't know. I'm not a climatologist of someone in the fashion industry.
Yes, I do believe in climate change, but I spell it W E A T H E R!!!!!!!
I can't comment much on West Coast summers in the US, but up here on Vancouver Island, we are missing out on extra long summers. One thing that seems to have been constant my whole life: the relative unpredictability of our seasonal weather, at least regarding when a season begins or ends.
I personally haven't found the need to make changes to my seasonal clothing.
But yea, I can see how global warming would effect the fashion industry. If they aren't selling winter lines, they"ll stop making them, or at least make smaller ones. And if businesses like Taget aren;t sellin winter clothing, why should they buy it? I mean, its going to be a whole before winter lines are totally gone, but I do see some shfting already.
Good luck with that, Al Gore.
part of the world. Heavy clothes will always be needed during said cold spells, but usually
here, we dig out our heavy winter coats and mittens, and pack away the shorts, swimwear,
and sandals, and hardly get turned around, and we're stashing the coats and mittens back
in the cedar closet, and breaking out the shorts, sandals, and swimwear again. Although
heavy attire will always be needed, it never sees as much time outside of seasonal storage
as out light garmets do. Therefore, heavy clothes don't recive as much wear and tear as
light clothes do, and as a result, don't need to be replaced as often as all of our summer
garments usually need to be.