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Evan's avatar

Very interesting. It might be worthwhile to point out that this is why Old Order Anabaptists dress like they do: it's a traditional style, unchanged for centuries, and thus untouched by the modern contrivance of trendiness and novelty. It's homemade, meaning a family has a personal relationship with the clothing, they put their own sweat and tears into it. And its simple, promoting modesty and humility in one's presentation of themselves. I think there's a lot to learn from this.

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Hadden Turner's avatar

Brilliant, brilliant piece Griffin. I am so glad to see this in the "wild" - and I am glad my thoughts were helpful.

This really is a critically important piece you have written, both from a theological perspective (consumerism is such a neglected topic for evangelicals) and from my agrarian perspective for fast fashion has severe implications for ecological unsustainability, worker exploitation, false conceptions of the good life, and "landscape-scale-visible-from-outer-space-level pollution".

Thank you for writing it.

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