![]() ![]() Outside of uniformed jobs, being exempt from the need to vary your look is a luxury mainly afforded to men, and the habit of wearing an identical outfit every day is embraced almost solely by men, be that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs or almost every suit-wearing office worker in the world. One way of tackling overconsumption is by reducing what you wear. And as the fashion business battles increasing sustainability problems, we may soon have to revert back to the norm. Today's hyper-paced shopping and discarding is a relatively new phenomenon. Meanwhile, the clothing industry wreaks havoc on our fellow humans and on the planet. The overabundance of cheap clothes means that many of us use only 20% of the garments in our wardrobes. Even green initiatives like clothes-swap events and wardrobe libraries, aimed at helping us be sustainable, push the same idea: what we already have is not enough. And we must constantly update our wardrobes. Even if we work in an office and not in a sweaty factory or in a sun-baked field. Every day – or at least every few days – we are expected to change what we are wearing. Even though the wedding guest and the office worker above were both reassured by others that they had done nothing wrong, the feeling remains. In the Western world, there is an unspoken rule. Can I really get in trouble for continuing to wear my dress every day?" said he had to talk to me about how I presented myself at work. "I was called into my boss's office and he. " challenge, where people wear the dress 100 days in a row," says another chat site user, this time on work advice site Ask a Manager. it was rude and that if I didn't want to go I should have declined the invitation rather than turn up inappropriately dressed. ![]() "Since Christmas, I've been to four weddings", writes a user of online forum Mumsnet. ![]()
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