Depends on what you consider Gen Z or not. I’m prob the cut-off or oldest GenZ; in my personal experience in schools, local area, etc if you’re not rich you’re probably using food-banks and clothing donations. It’s not uncommon for Americans leveraged to the god damn ears to use those services. It’s why you see nice cars roll up to them and apparently well-to-do Americans taking things. Because it’s all presentation and they have more debt than actual wealth.
If you’re a little better off, you get some nice clothes from family. It’s not the 90s where you can just go into a thrift store and walk out with 5 cum-stained pants for 10 bucks. Thrift stores where I live are starting to raise prices. One pair of thrifted cum-stained pants is 20 now.
I’ve been wearing the same wardrobe for years now. The idea to me of throwing down 20 bucks for six pairs of socks is ridiculous when I KNOW they were made for 2 cents with exploited labor. Combine that with the fact that GenZ has record levels of unemployment/mental illness. Of course they prefer “cheap fast” ANYTHING.
If you can learn how to sew you also realize both how cheap the shit you’re wearing is AND how long clothes can actually last.
Depends on what you consider Gen Z or not. I’m prob the cut-off or oldest GenZ; in my personal experience in schools, local area, etc if you’re not rich you’re probably using food-banks and clothing donations. It’s not uncommon for Americans leveraged to the god damn ears to use those services. It’s why you see nice cars roll up to them and apparently well-to-do Americans taking things. Because it’s all presentation and they have more debt than actual wealth.
If you’re a little better off, you get some nice clothes from family. It’s not the 90s where you can just go into a thrift store and walk out with 5 cum-stained pants for 10 bucks. Thrift stores where I live are starting to raise prices. One pair of thrifted cum-stained pants is 20 now.
I’ve been wearing the same wardrobe for years now. The idea to me of throwing down 20 bucks for six pairs of socks is ridiculous when I KNOW they were made for 2 cents with exploited labor. Combine that with the fact that GenZ has record levels of unemployment/mental illness. Of course they prefer “cheap fast” ANYTHING.
If you can learn how to sew you also realize both how cheap the shit you’re wearing is AND how long clothes can actually last.
Gen Z is anyone born 2001 onwards. I am born on 2006.