Lowkey, with Z

    Lowkey,  I’d like to talk about a lost art: mending. Why don’t we fix our clothes anymore? People used to value their clothes so highly, simply fixing little holes and tears in otherwise perfectly fine clothing. It’s especially cool because a lot of clothes were self made or bought locally. Throwing away clothes used to be completely unheard of: old clothes were incorporated into quilts, cut into rags, sewn into rugs, and used in all sorts of ways. Shoes were sewn back together, clothes were patched, what happened? Why don’t we value our clothes as much anymore? When our society moved from self-sufficiency to industry we also shifted from making the things that we need to buying the things that we need. We have been trained to consume, consume, consume. We consume our needs, consume our wants, consume things that we don’t even want but are so easy to get. Moreover, we consume without thinking about what happens to the things that we already have; there’s no thoug...