Mend your ways

Hannah Betts says eschewing the new is oh so au courant

YO, BITCHES. AS 2023 takes shape, might I recommend a radical fashion idea? Buy nothing, take a break, collect yourself, take stock, impose a palette cleanse, find out who you are, solve world peace etc. Just don’t acquire a single garment. Instead, sort clothes, mend clothes, rid yourself of clothes. Th ink about clothes, but don’t purchase the fuckers. Automatically, you’re going to be a lot more fashionable. And the longer you keep this up, the more bracingly au courant you will be. I say this because I’m going to be doing it, and, man, I am cool. So cool, in fact, that I’m going to be going clothes sober for the entire year in a breaking no-/ exceedingly low-buy style era. Why? Well, you know, the planet, financial apocalypse,…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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